Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others-the minted round of metal. And one may safely say… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?… — George Gissing Copy Share
It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days… — George Gissing Copy Share
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. — George Gissing Copy Share
Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure. — George Gissing Copy Share
The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm. — George Gissing Copy Share
“I don't advise. You mutn't give any weight to what I say, except in so far as your own judgment approves it.” — George Gissing Copy Share
“The truth was that nature had endowed them with a larger share of brains than was common in their circle, and had added that… — George Gissing Copy Share
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? — George Gissing Copy Share
For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and… — George Gissing Copy Share
Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity. — George Gissing Copy Share
I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry… — George Gissing Copy Share
I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites… — George Gissing Copy Share
