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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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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. – Jane Austen

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. Its the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism. – Jean Baudrillard

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I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage. – Alan Brien

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

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