Advice to persons about to marry - don't.

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

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We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.

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

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

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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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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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