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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

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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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