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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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"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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"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 great city is not to be confounded with a populous one." »Aristotle
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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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"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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"Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm." »John F. Kennedy
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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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"Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone." »Mark Twain
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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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"In New York city, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space." »Judith Stone
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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, Chicago Poems (1916) "Fog"
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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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"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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"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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"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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"It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world." »Oscar Wilde
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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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