Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad

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

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

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

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

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