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Henry Mayhew

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

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

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"Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!"

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"Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness."

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"I'm working toward a CD that will have all of you dancing like crazy."

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"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."

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"My first vocation was dance."

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"Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it."

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"My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing."

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"I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance."

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"West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York."

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"How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light."

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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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"Advice to persons about to marry - don't."
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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."
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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."
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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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"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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"We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course."
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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."
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