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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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You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy.…
— James Gleick
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a…
— Anais Nin
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My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever…
— Susan Orlean
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I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in…
— Lloyd Jones
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[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
— Charles de Lint
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The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was…
— Henry Adams
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Back up shall we? When my brother, the crazy chicken warrior, turned into a falcon and went up the pyramid’s chimney with…
— Rick Riordan
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My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don't have nothing to do with your new friend
— Erykah Badu
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