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Cities Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we…
- Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold…
- Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets…
- No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For…
- They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of…
- Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
- When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
- Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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