Quotes by Henry Mayhew

We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course.

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We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.

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There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily...

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The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a...

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The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode...

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The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal...

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The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and...

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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of...

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It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal...

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In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread...

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I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who...

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Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths...

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