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
Henry MayhewThe costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.
Henry MayhewIt 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
Henry MayhewThe essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it
Henry Mayhew