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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."

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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."

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