Quote by Caesar Augustus
I found Rome brick, I left it marble. - Caesar Augustus

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

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night. – Rupert Brooke

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. – Jane Austen

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. – Charles Baudelaire

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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