Everything he undertook was easy to him, and by a pleasant self-deception he made the passing of a school task his augury of success in greater thing… - George Gissing

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Everything he undertook was easy to him, and by a pleasant self-deception he made the passing of a school task his augury of success in greater things.

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About George Gissing

George Robert Gissing (November 22 1857 – December 28 1903) was an English novelist and short story writer.

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Birth Name: George Robert Gissing
Alternative Names: George R. Gissing • G. R. Gissing
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Time is money — says the vulgarest saw known to any age or people. Turn it round about, and you get a precious truth — money is time. [...] What are we doing all our lives but purchasing, or trying to purchase, time? And most of us, having grasped it with one hand, throw it away with the other.
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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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