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The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
Finally, within a huge and sombre mass of things,
A blackened people, living and dying in silence.
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I wander thro' each charter'd street,
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow,
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Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.
Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignif ...
It is a damned place--to be sure--but the only one in the world (at least in the English world) for fun--though I have seen parts ...
--The man who has stood on the Acropolis,
And looked down over Attica; or he
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That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
About the London shop girls of the meaner short no derogatory remarks can be too strong, just as no commendation can be too high o ...
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