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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
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Herbert Prochnow
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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Aristotle
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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Walt Whitman
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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.
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John Ciardi
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Ezra Pound
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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All things may be bought in Rome with money.
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(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
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George Santayana
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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
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Rupert Brooke
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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
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Henry David Thoreau
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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.
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Caesar Augustus
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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
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Michelangelo
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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
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W. C. Fields
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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
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Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas books
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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Alphonse De Lamartine
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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.
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Thomas E. Dewey
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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
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Alexander Maclaren
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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.
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Johnny Carson
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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
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Neil Simon
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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Christopher Morley
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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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Cyril Connolly
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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
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Thomas Wolfe
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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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78 votes
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith books
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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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