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"One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years."
"When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast."
"Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years."
"London is the clearing-house of the world."
"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
"Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude."
"Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display."
Explore more quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."
"Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking."
"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."
"A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
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