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Excerpt from Paved With Gold: Or the Romance and Reality of the Streets of London
IT has often struck me that if a truthful account were written of the miseries of criminal life, it would, by destroying the fancied ro mance of wickedness, have a quicker effect in checking juvenile de pravity than any moral appeals that could be made to the under standings of the evil-disposed.
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