The art of living is the art of compromise. - George Gissing

Refuge from despair is often found in the passion of self-pity and that spirit of obstinate resistance which it engenders.

The sum of their faults was their inability to earn money; but, indeed, that inability does not call for unmingled disdain.

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By a window looking from Posillipo upon the Bay of Naples sat an English lady, engaged in letter-writing. She was only in her four-and-twentieth year,