Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Samuel Smiles
Born: December 23, 1812
Died: April 16, 1904 (aged 91)
Bio: Samuel Smiles was a Scottish author and government reformer who campaigned on a Chartist platform. But he concluded that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws.
Known for:
- Self Help (1859)
- Lives of the Engineers (1861)
- The Life of George Stephenson
- Thrift (1876)
- Men of Invention and Industry (1884)
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