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“What is the city but the people?” William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
“The people should fight for their law as for their city wall.” Heraclitus, On Nature
“Even with eyes protected by the green spectacles, Dorothy and her friends were at first dazzled by the brilliancy of the wonderful City.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
“The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
“The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.” Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography
“Let us gather together in the great cities, and light huge bonfires of a million gas-jets, and shout and sing together, and feel brave.” Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
“The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“New York's terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night. You can hear it for miles. It makes you feel so lonesome and depressed.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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On Nature (1)
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Chronicles, Volume One (1)
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