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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
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George Gissing
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I
think
there
could
be
no
better
illustration
of
what
it
means
to
be
very
poor
in
a
great
town.
And
I
am
glad
to
have
been
through
it.
To
those
days
of
misery
I
owe
much
of
the
contentment
which
I
now
enjoy;
not
by
mere
force
of
contrast,
but
because
I
have
been
better
taught
than
most
men
the
facts
which
condition
our
day
to
day
existence.
To
the
ordinary
educated
person,
freedom
from
anxiety
as
to
how
he
shall
merely
be
fed
and
clothed
is
a
matter
of
course;
questioned,
he
would
admit
it
to
be
an
agreeable
state
of
things,
but
it
is
no
more
a
source
of
conscious
joy
to
him
than
physical
health
to
the
thoroughly
sound
man.
For
me,
were
I
to
live
another
fifty
years,
this
security
would
be
a
delightful
surprise
renewed
with
every
renewal
of
day.
I
know,
as
only
one
with
my
experience
can,
all
that
is
involved
in
the
possession
of
means
to
live.
The
average
educated
man
has
never
stood
alone,
utterly
alone,
just
clad
and
nothing
more
than
that,
with
the
problem
before
him
of
wresting
his
next
meal
from
a
world
that
cares
not
whether
he
live
or
die.
There
is
no
such
school
of
political
economy.
Go
through
that
course
of
lectures,
and
you
will
never
again
become
confused
as
to
the
meaning
of
elementary
terms
in
that
sorry
science.
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