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.

Quote by George Gissing

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

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

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing...

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing...

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would...

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would...

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be...

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be...

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand...

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand...

Have the courage of your desire.

Have the courage of your desire.