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Henry Mayhew has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.
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The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
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A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity…
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There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the…
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Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved
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Advice to persons about to marry - don't
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The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it
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Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none…
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