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I don't advise. You mutn't give any weight to what I say, except in so far as your own judgment appr...

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Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be...

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This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.

Honest Winter snow-clad and with the frosted beard I can welcome not uncordially But that long d...

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It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, ...

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Well, I wasn't going to abuse him. I was only going to ask: Is there any quality which distinguishes...

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New Grub Street

But just understand the difference between a man like Reardon and a man like me. He is the old type ...

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A womanly occupation means, practically, an occupation that a man disdains.

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care i...

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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

He liked to feel the soft little hand clasping his own fingers, so big and coarse in comparison, and...

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I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be remind...

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same ...

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has it...

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Honest Winter, snow-clad, and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; But that long d...

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George Gissing

Novelist

Born: 1857-11-22

Died: 1903-12-28

George Robert Gissing (November 22 1857 – December 28 1903) was an English novelist and short story writer.More