You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York. – William Lyon Phelps

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New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer. – Henry Miller

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California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life… its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. – J.B. Priestley

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The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872

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California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America. – Hinton R. Helper

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