"Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in……" — Henry Mayhew
"Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved"
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16 Quotes by Henry Mayhew
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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…
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There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns…
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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…
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Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there…
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But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at…
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I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the…
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We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles
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The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and…
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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the…
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