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  • God the first garden made and the first city Cain.

  • Alcaeus said:

    Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded nay nor canals and dockyards make the city but men able to use their opportunity.

  • URBANITY n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words I beg your pardon and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others.

  • It is my belief Watson founded upon my experience that the lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

  • Ben Hecht said:

    Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.

  • Don Marquis said:

    He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

  • Clearly then the city is not a concrete jungle it is a human zoo.

  • A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

  • Unknown said:

    Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring wedding ring and suffering.

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