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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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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. – Jane Austen

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Reading
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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. – Jane Austen

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Nature
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. – Jane Austen

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Fortune
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Other Quotes from
City Life, Cities
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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

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City Life, Cities

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

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. – Fred A. Allen

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City Life, Cities

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. – Italo Calvino

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City Life, Cities

Random Quotes

How come wrong numbers are never busy? – Author Unknown

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Telephones

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. – Sigmund Freud, 1933

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Censorship

Blueness doth express trueness. – Ben Jonson

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Color

There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. – Author Unknown

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Friendship