City

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it
The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means
This city is what it is because our citizens are what they are
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one
Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial
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