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Quote by Jane Austen
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is som

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

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Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. – Jane Austen

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Pleasure
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Jane Austen
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The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for. – Jane Austen

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

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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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City Life, Cities

And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beautys heightening… – Matthew Arnold

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City Life, Cities

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved. – Johnny Carson

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Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future. – Marilyn Ferguson

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