"Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings"

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Source : Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.57, Courier Corporation

Henry Mayhew

#Sake Quotes #Nightfall Quotes #Parks Quotes

“The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.”
“Reflect upon your present blessings”
“To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give reality to one's dreams.”
“I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.”
“If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything.”

Source : Ellen G. White (2013). “Our Father Cares”, Review and Herald Pub Assoc
“Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.9, New Victoria Publishers
“It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.”
“Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and more of us will be condemned to linger, at the mercy of anxious or indifferent relatives, careless strangers, unwanted medical interventions, increasing debility, incontinence, memory loss. We live too long, but, like the sibyl hanging in her basket in the cave at Cumae, we find it hard to die.”

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