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George Robert Gissing (/ˈɡɪsɪŋ/; 22 November 1857 – 28 December 1903) was an English novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. Gissing also worked as a teacher and tutor throughout his life. He published his first novel, Workers in the Dawn, in 1880. His best known novels, which are published in modern editions, include The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891), and The Odd Women (1893).

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To be at other people's orders brings out all the bad in me.

Order, People, Bad, Orders, Brings

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

Love, Heart, Eye, Touched, World, Mind

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

Laughter, Fate, Farce, Sense, Advantage, Life

Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.

Bitter, Frosted, Heart, Honest, Long, Winter

London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.

London, Hotel, Shops, Storeys, Huge

I hate and fear 'science' because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the remorseless enemy of mankind. I see it destroying all simplicity and gentleness of life, all the beauty of the world; I see it restoring barbarism under a mask of civilization; I see it darkening men's minds and hardening their hearts.

Beauty, Destroying, Hate, Heart, Men, Remorseless

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others-the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment.

Christmas, Heart, Holly, Majority, Yield

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Time, Money, Turns, Proverb, Precious, Turn

I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

Appetite, Calling, Food, Hate, Human, Names

Have the courage of your desire.

Bravery, Courage, Desire, Success

In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea. . . the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.

Cooking, Declared, Food, Grandmother, Mind, Repose

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

Acceptance, Compassion, Often Is, Life, Insupportable, Fancy

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

Happiness, Passing Moments, Passings, Passing, Mortal

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

Intellectual, Vices, Hopeless, Vice, Flippancy

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

Book, Nose, Reading, Smell, Things

This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by such things in a certain order of mind. His phrases about "dire calamity" and so on mean nothing; the whole tenor of his writing proves that he represents, and consciously, one of the forces which go to bring war about; his part in the business is a fluent irresponsibility, which casts scorn on all who reluct at the "inevitable. " Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

War, Mean, Writing, Tenor, Phrases, Business

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

Calm, Futile, Growing, Mind

Literature nowadays is a trade. . . the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

Successful, Men, Thinking, Tradesman, Foremost, Markets

One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, out-of-doors coat for easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray. . . . [H]ow delicious is the soft yet penetrating odour which floats into my study, with the appearance of the teapot!. . . What a glow does it bring after a walk in chilly rain!

Rain, Doors, Shining, Soft, Chair

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?

Christmas, Hollies, Care, Greatly, Mistletoe

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