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The earning of money should be a means to an end; for more than thirty years — I began to support myself at sixteen — I had to regard it as the end itself.

— George Gissing The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)

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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.

The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)

For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)

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.

The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)

For the work of man's mind there is one test, and one alone, the judgment of generations yet unborn. If you have written a great book, the world to come will know of it.

The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)

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