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Athens Quotes

"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo."

"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo."

Derek Walcott, Trinidadian Playwright

Athens, Echo, May, Spain

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"In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings."

"In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings."

Stephen Gardiner, British Architect

Athens, Cities, Houses, Poor

8

"An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise."

"An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise."

Robert South, English Clergyman

Athens, Paradise

7

"When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map."

"When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map."

Michael Stipe, American Musician

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