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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
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Jane Austen

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.
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Ferdinando Galiani

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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Samuel Johnson

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.
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Christopher Fieldes

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The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo.
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Desmond Morris

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The city is recruited from the country.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
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Murray Kempton

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
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Fred A. Allen

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
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John Kenneth Galbraith

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
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Don Herold

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
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Kathleen Norris

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.
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Martin Oppenheimer

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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D. H. Lawrence

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.
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Robert Gurney

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Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
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John F. Kennedy

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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Ada Louise Huxtable

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
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Fred A. Allen

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
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Jane Austen

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
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John F. Kennedy

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
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Joseph Brodsky

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.
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Coriolanus III

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.
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Ambrose Bierce

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]
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Frank Dane

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.
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Italian Proverb

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