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"We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles."
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"
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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
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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."
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"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."
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"The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them."
Boys

"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."
Truth

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

"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."
Industry

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

"The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it."
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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."
Fire
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