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Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.
George Gissing -
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
George Gissing
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Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.
George Gissing -
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
George Gissing -
Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.
George Gissing -
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
George Gissing -
Have the courage of your desire.
George Gissing -
It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .
George Gissing
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The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.
George Gissing -
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
George Gissing -
It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.
George Gissing