"But the branches of industry are so multifarious,……" — Henry Mayhew
"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 them to any system"
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Henry Mayhew
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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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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…
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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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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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