Duddell Street (Chinese: 都爹利街; pinyin: Dūdiēlì Jiē; Cantonese Yale: dou1 de1 lei6 gaai1) is a street in Central, Hong Kong, bounded by Ice House Street and Queen's Road Central.
This short street includes at its southern end a flight of granite steps, built between 1875 and 1889, leading to Ice House Street. It was named for George Duddell, an auctioneer and ultimately a significant property owner in the area around the present Duddell Street in the mid-19th century. Coordinates: 22°16′49″N 114°09′27″E / 22.28017°N 114.15749°E / 22.28017; 114.15749
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“Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to make a very barroom of the mind’s inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust of the street had occupied us,—the very street itself, with all its travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our thoughts’ shrine! Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)