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Henry Mayhew

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.

– Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew

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 manufactures.

– Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew

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

– Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew

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

– Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew

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, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

– Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew

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 by themselves as your mere matters of fact.

– Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew

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

– Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew

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 habit of assembling.

– Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew

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 port.

– Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew

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 covered by the whole metropolis.

– Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew

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 at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity.

– Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew

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

– Henry Mayhew

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