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George Gissing quotes

English novelist (1857-1903), author of New Grub Street.

• You tell me that money cannot buy the things most precious. Your commonplace proves that you have never known the lack of it.

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• When I think of all the sorrow and the barrenness that has been wrought in my life by want of a few more pounds per annum, I stand aghast.

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• I marvel at the recollection that for a good score of years this pen and a scrap of paper clothed and fed me and my household.

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• A door that locked, a fire in winter, a pipe of tobacco, these were things essential.

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• The earning of money should be a means to an end.

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