Anton Chekhov Quotes

Yakov Spent The Whole Day Playing His Fiddle; When It Got Completely Dark, He Took The Notebook In Which He Recorded His Losses Daily, And Out Of Boredom Began Adding Up The Yearly Total. It Came To Over A Thousand Roubles. This Astounded Him So Much That He Flung The Abacus To The Floor And Stamped His Feet. Then He Picked Up The Abacus, Again Clicked Away For A Long Time, And Sighed Deeply And Tensely. His Face Was Purple And Wet With Sweat. He Thought That If He Could Have Put That Lost Thousand Roubles In The Bank, He Would Have Earned At Least Forty Roubles A Year In Interest. And Therefore Those Forty Roubles Were A Loss. In Short, Wherever You Turned, There Was Nothing But Losses Everywhere.
- Rothchild's Fiddle

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