On the streets of 19th-century London
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How to Make a Living on the Street
There's a very middle class view we've inherited about disapproving of people on the street. The saddest thing, maybe, is it's not representative of londoners as a whole. If you yourself out on the street, there's a lot of good will towards you from other people. I mean, at the absolute worst, you can become a beggar of one kind or another. There are people like john james bisri mention earlier, who, and throughout their lives, feel too proud to do this. It's allso dangerous.
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