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
   
George Gissing   Name:
George Gissing
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
British
Birth:
November 22, 1857
Death:
December 28, 1903
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