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

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

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

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

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

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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