"Ask the perfumers, ask the blacking-makers, ask the hatters, ask the old lottery-office keepers--ask any man among 'em what my po...etry has done for him, and mark my words, he blesses the name of Slum. If he's an honest man, he raises his eyes to heaven, and blesses the name of Slum--mark that!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never wear my best coat on a journey, though perchance I could show a certificate to prove that I have a more costly one, at lea...st, at home, if that were all that a gentleman required. It is not wise for a traveler to go dressed. I should no more think of it than of putting on a clean dicky and blacking my shoes to go a-fishing; as if you were going out to dine, when, in fact, the genuine traveler is going out to work hard, and fare harder,--to eat a crust by the wayside whenever he can get it. Honest traveling is about as dirty work as you can do, and a man needs a pair of overalls for it. As for blacking my shoes in such a case, I should as soon think of blacking my face.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of some wrong,--if it is only to make a... better paste blacking,--and they are themselves so much the better morally for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »