"I have the happiness of a passing moment,……" — George Gissing
"I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?"
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35 Quotes by George Gissing
George Gissing has 35 quotes on this site.
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The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching…
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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…
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Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the…
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Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no…
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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…
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It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as…
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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…
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To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of…
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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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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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