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Excerpt from Paved With Gold: Or the Romance and Reality of the Streets of London
Of course, crime means - unrestrained selfishness, or, in other words, the gratification of desires, regardless of the misery the indul gence may in?ict on others. There are many of the leaden-souled who, if crime were treated as a business speculation, - if the chances of profit and loss were as thoroughly weighed as when a merchant studies his ventures, - might be impressed with the folly of the risk, and, swayed by their selfishness, take to honesty as the better policy. As I have said, these wicked of the world have no fear of the law, but they have a full appreciation of personal advantages. Prove to them that the rewards of virtue are by one penny higher than those of vice, and they will, with marvellous rapidity, alter their courses. If they are once coaxed into this passive honesty, the schoolmaster may, with good prospects of success, commence his work.
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