The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.
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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.Henry Mayhew
I heard on all hands that the costers never steal from one another, and never wink at any one stealing from a neighbouring stall.
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The attainment of the truth, then, will be my primary aim but by the truth. I wish it to be understood, I mean something more than the bare facts.
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We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course.
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