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

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Source : Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labor and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.26

Henry Mayhew

#Cheating Quotes #Boys Quotes #Stealing Quotes

“People have been tolerating their insane political system, in exchange for the countless privileges they are getting from their countries' plundering of the planet, and violating entire nations and continents. But in Africa, Asia and elsewhere, those "un-people" have no choice at all.”
“Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.”
“Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.”
“The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.”
“The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.”
“To reach satisfaction in all desire its possession in nothing, To come to the knowledge of all desire the knowledge of nothing. To come to possess all desire the possession of nothing. To arrive at being all desire to be nothing.”

Source : Saint John of the Cross, Kieran Kavanaugh (1987). “John of the Cross: Selected Writings”, p.78, Paulist Press
“Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.”
“Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.”

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