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“The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.”
John Milton Quotes Source: L'Allegro (l. 117)
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“Unless the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh in vain.
[Lat., Nisi Dominus frustra.]”
Motto Quotes Source: of the City of Edinburgh
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“Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this
can be effected by men residing in the city.”
Plato Quotes Source: Works (vol. III, The Phaedrus)
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“I dwelt in a city enchanted,
And lonely indeed was my lot;
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Though the latitude's rather uncertain,
And the longitude also is vague,
The persons I pity who know not the City
The beautiful City of Prague.”
W.J. Prowse Quotes Source: The City of Prague, ("Little Village on Thames")
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“Petite ville, grand renom.
Small town, great renown.”
Francois Rabelais Quotes Source: Pantagruel (bk. V, ch. XXXV), of Chinon, Rabelais's native town
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“Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim,
Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.”
Thomas Seward Quotes Source: On Shakespeare's Monument at Stratford-on-Avon
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“That is the way to lay the city flat,
To bring the roof to the foundation,
And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges,
In heaps and piles of ruin.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Coriolanus (Cominius at III, i)
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“What is the city but the people?”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Coriolanus (Sicinius at III, i)
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“He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it
built of marble.
[Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]”
Caius Tranquillus Suetonius Quotes Source: Caesar Augustus (28), adapted
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