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"The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men." »Homer
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"I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble." »Caesar Augustus
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"It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living." »Andrew Schneider
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"Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the city of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the city of God." »Saint Augustine
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"Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa If he still survives, he must be hiding in the small towns. You sure don't see him very often in the big city. The big-city Grandpa has gone big time. ... He is the life of every party, and out to prove he is just as young as he ever was. A grandchild who makes the mistake of calling him 'Gramps' is lucky if he isn't rewarded by a quick kick in the stomach." »Hal
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"Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it." »Alvin Toffler
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"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor." »Ring Lardner
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"editor a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." »Elbert Hubbard
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"It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times , in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting." »A. M. Rosenthal
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"Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all." »Lavina Goodell
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"The city is the teacher of the man." »Simondes of Ceos
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"To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all." »Spiro Agnew
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"Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man." »Hesiod
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"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village If you would know, and not be known, live in a city." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one." »Aristotle
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"A city is a large community where people are lonesome together." »Herbert V. Prochnow
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"It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas city in order to be unhappy." »Groucho Marx
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"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." »Doug Larson
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"Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm." »John F. Kennedy
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"Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone." »Mark Twain
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"Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city." »Anne Michaels
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"We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair." »Mignon McLaughlin
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"Washington D.C. is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on." »Carl Sandburg
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"The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition." »Alan Alda
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"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls." »Epicurus
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"The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York city. The scalpel of the law is making us well again." »Edward Irving Koch
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"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." »George Burns
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"On the road from the city of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975)" »Adam Smith
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"If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don't know what to tell you." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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