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Quotation from Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
“will our descendants two hundred years from now, for whom we are breaking the road, remember to give us a kind word?”
Uncle Vanya, Act I, trans. Marian Fell
After describing a typhoid epidemic and a patient who died under chloroform, Astroff wonders whether his labour will be remembered.
Citation: "will our descendants two hundred years from now, for whom we are breaking the road, remember to give us a kind word?" — Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, Act I, trans. Marian Fell. (id chekhov-uncle-vanya-q1)
Portrait: Anton Chekhov with bow-tie sepia image, Unknown photographer, Public domain.
