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Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but

Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. – Cyril Connolly

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All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. – Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins

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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. – Somerset Maugham

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The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Sr.

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