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George Gissing has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to…
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In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call…
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Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise,…
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Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch…
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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
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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…
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It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children,…
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How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them;…
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To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental…
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Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay,…
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For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.
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That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
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I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more…
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Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
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To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental…
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I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it.…
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The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.
— Hesketh Pearson
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
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I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place…
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I don't think I'm like Shakespeare.
— Joss Whedon
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Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or…
— William Allingham
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Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
— Denzel Washington
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I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.
— Arthur Phillips
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