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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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"Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!" »Catullus
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"Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred." »Sir Walter Raleigh
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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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"I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt." »Miguel de Cervantes
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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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"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence." »Tom Blair
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"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence." »Tom Blair
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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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"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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"In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans." »Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one." »Aristotle
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"The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo." »Desmond Morris
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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 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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"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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"New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian." »Russell Baker
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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 D.C. is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm." »John F. Kennedy
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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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"He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city." »Bible, Proverbs, XLI, 32
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"In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space." »Judith Stone
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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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