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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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"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."

"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."
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