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

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

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

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

The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

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

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.

Advice to persons about to marry - don't.