"People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly……" — George Gissing
"People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business."
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35 Quotes by George Gissing
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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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More Ancient Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our…
— Margaret Atwood
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
— Saint Augustine
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,…
— Diane Ackerman
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
— Enid Bagnold
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
— Andrew Bernstein
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To…
— Wendell Berry
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My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted…
— Annie Besant
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
— Annie Besant
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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