It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness t… - George Gissing

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It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

George Gissing

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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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Poverty doesn’t allow of honourable feeling, any more than of compassion.

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Both of them are obvious dwellers in the valley of the shadow of books.

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