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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present."
"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."
"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."
"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
Explore more quotes by George Gissing
"Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time."
"It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched."
"The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one."
"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."
"Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman."
"For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously."
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