Henry Mayhew quotes
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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”
-- Henry MayhewSource : Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.158
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“The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.”
-- Henry MayhewSource : Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labor and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.26
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“Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings”
-- Henry MayhewSource : Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.57, Courier Corporation
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“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 MayhewSource : Henry Mayhew (2016). “The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts”, p.42, Routledge
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“We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles”
-- Henry MayhewSource : Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.158
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“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”
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“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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“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 MayhewSource : Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.157
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“Advice to persons about to marry - don't”
-- Henry MayhewSource : George Cruikshank, Henry George Hine, Rigdum Funnidos (gent.), Horace Mayhew, Henry Mayhew (1912). “Comic Almanack and Diary”
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“Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved”
-- Henry MayhewSource : Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.80, Courier Corporation
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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 centres of particular manufactures”
-- Henry MayhewSource : Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.76, Courier Corporation
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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 of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.”
-- Henry MayhewSource : Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.157
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“The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.”
-- Henry MayhewSource : Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.158
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“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
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