Henry Mayhew Quotes

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• The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.
• The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
• A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth,…
• There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular…
• Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved
• Advice to persons about to marry - don't
• The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it
• Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless…
• But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce…
• I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the…
• We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles
• The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent…
• Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall…
• It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old…
• We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course.
• In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared…

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