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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.

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Journalist

Born: November 25th, 1812

Died: July 25th, 1887

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