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Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
George Gissing
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Prophecy
This solemn moment of triumph, one of the greatest moments in the history of the world . . . this great hour which rings in a new era . . . and which is going to lift up humanity to a higher plane of existence for all the ages of the future.
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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
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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.
— George Gissing
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