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There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
Category: Cities Author: Philip G Hamerton
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All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Category: Cities Author: Christopher Morley
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Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.
Category: Cities Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
Category: Cities Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Towered cities please us then,
And the busy hum of men.
Category: Cities Author: John Milton
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What is the city but the people?
Category: Cities Author: William Shakespeare
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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
Category: Cities Author: Cyril Connolly
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The roaring street is hung for miles
With fierce electric fire.
Category: Cities Author: William Vaughan Moody
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Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
Category: Cities Author: Desmond Morris
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There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self.
Category: Cities Author: Ben Hecht
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Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.
Category: Cities Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.
Category: Cities Author: Marcus Terentius Varro
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God made the country, and man made the town.
Category: Cities Author: William Cowper
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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
Category: Cities Author: Herbert Prochnow
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
Category: Cities Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
Of human cities torture.
Category: Cities Author: George Gordon Lord Byron
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To one who has been long in city pent,
'Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven, - to breathe a prayer
Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
Category: Cities Author: John Keats
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Cities are the abyss of the human species.
Category: Cities
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
Category: Cities Author: Somerset Maugham
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In Rome you long for the country; in the country - oh inconstant! - you praise the distant city to the stars.
Category: Cities Author: Horace
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