That poor creature’s unhappiness was doubtless in great measure due to the conviction that in missing love and marriage she had missed everything. - George Gissing

Life utterly denied to me the satisfaction of my strongest instincts, so long as I plodded on without cause of shame; the moment I denied my faith, and put on a visage of brass, great possibilities opened before me

He had heard but one of Walter's lectures, yet that was enough to realise for him the kind of thing which henceforth he disliked and distrusted. Egremont, it seemed to him, had sought to make working men priggish and effeminate, whereas what they wanted was back-bone and consciousness of the bard facts of life.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice, was a characterising note of Mr Fadge’s periodical; his