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" one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. "
Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 209
1824
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Club Cameos: Portraits of the Day ...

Club Cameos - 1879 - 410 pages
...should not care to be present at those interviews. BOHEMIA. BOHEMIA. IT has been well said that the one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. We each of us move in our own sphere, follow its habits, accept its teaching, and adopt its customs....
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Peasant Life in the West of England

Francis George Heath - 1880 - 464 pages
...sentimental,' but was aroused by actual acquaintance with its subject and object. It is a trite saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives : but it was especially true of the poor agricultural labourer before the date of the movement which...
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Black and White: Mission Stories

H. A. Forde - 1895 - 566 pages
...outside of things ; shall we look further ? Better not, perhaps; the sight might only distress us. " One half of the world does not know how the other half lives " is a saying eminently true of this great town. Is it well to tear away the veil, then, to shock the ears,...
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Black and white, mission sketches

H A. Forde - 1881 - 572 pages
...outside of things ; shall we look further ? Better not, perhaps; the sight might only distress us. " One half of the world does not know how the other half lives " is a saying eminently true of this great town. Is it well to tear away the veil, then, to shock the ears,...
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Penn Monthly Magazine, Volume 12

Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1881 - 980 pages
...sympathies of the reader, for it serves to illustrate very plainly the truth of the familiar saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES, by Miss Anna Catharine Greene, from the press of Messrs. GP Putnam's Sons, New...
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Reports Made to the Senate and House of Representatives of the ..., Volume 2

Illinois - 1881 - 1142 pages
...solicitude by enlightened persons seeking the amelioration of their condition. We have passed the time when "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives," and have come upon a time when the daily intimate life, not only of the insane, but of paupers and...
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The Judge, Volume 82

1922 - 920 pages
...call a man who runs an automobile?" "It depends on how near he comes to hitting me." — Houston Post. One half of the world does not know how the other half brews. — Indianapolis News. "Trotter seems to be kept pretty busy by that second-hand car he bought...
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The works of Thomas Hood, ed., with notes, by his son [T. Hood] and daughter ...

Thomas Hood - 1882 - 494 pages
...whether there may not be for such scenery fit actors and appropriate dramas 1 It has been said that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives ; an ignorance, by the way, which Boz has essentially helped to enlighten ; it is quite as certain...
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Our work at home & abroad

Church extension assoc - 400 pages
...week. Is it possible? we hear some of our readers say. ' Possible,' and, alas ! ' true.' Certainly one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. But how does she manage? In this way. She receives a weekly allowance of ^ cwt. of coals, a quartern...
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The Aesthetic Movement in England

Walter Hamilton - 1882 - 146 pages
...whose very existence only a vague and uncertain idea previously had been formed. How true it is that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives ! Suppose, then, as it is a matter of curious philosophical interest, that we take a few steps back...
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