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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. - Fred

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. – Fred A. Allen

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In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future – Daniel J. Boorstin

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City Life, Cities

I found Rome brick, I left it marble. – Caesar Augustus

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City Life, Cities

Ive been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this: If youve seen one city slum youve seen them all. – Spiro T. Agnew

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City Life, Cities

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasnt changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. – John Berger

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