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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, Caesar Augustus (28), adapted The city of dreadful night. - James Thomson (2) (known as B.V. or Bysshe Vanolis), Current Literature for 1889 (p. 492) This poor little one-horse town. - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens), The Undertaker's Story Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities. [Lat., Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes.] - Marcus Terentius Varro, De Re Rustica (III, 1) We have been Trojans; Troy was. [Lat., Fuimus Troes; fuit Ilium.] - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (II, 324) A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. - Walt Whitman Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight. - Nathaniel Parker Willis Displaying page 3 of 3 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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