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I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this: If you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.
We have seen the city; it is the gibbous
Mirrored eye of an insect. All things happen
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What life is best?
Courts are but only superficial schools
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The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).
One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach. All the damn vampires.
[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.
Home! Yes! she would see Trafalgar Square, again; and Nelson on his plinth; and Chelsea Bridge as it dissolved into the Thames at ...
When we retreat to the country, we are hiding not from people, but from our pride, which, in the city and among people, operates u ...
He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of m ...
Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appea ...
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