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When in Rome, do as Rome does. - Ambrose Bierce

When in Rome, do as Rome does. – Ambrose Bierce

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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. – Ambrose Bierce

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

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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast. – Italian Proverb

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