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scruples drugged. Longmore, however, had neither scruples nor desires; he looked at the swarming city for the first time with an easy sense of repaying its indifference.

p 200

"Never interfere with people's beer ... give 'em clean streets ... Kape the street free of ba-ad people. The public don't object to dirt but it wants it kept in the back alleys ... Follow what tell you, you can do what else ye please."

rules of bosses from O Albany! by W. Kennedy

The studio has become the crucible in which human genius, at the peak of its development, brings back into question all that exists. - De LaCroix

quoted from Imagination Chamber by Belony-Revold and Michael Peppiatt - 1982

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A Treasury of French Tales by Pourrat - 1953

Feet will win the race, not eyes. p 77

It was a lie; but in high life they have to tell lies so they can get out of a scrape in good style. p 56

He knew how to talk, this smooth fellow, and he could have made them all swallow Tuesday for Wednesday. p 54

The farmer had not told him much, but a word is enough when you have ears to hear. p 51

The Tinkers were fellows who blew their noses on their sleeve, and they did not worry about niceties. p 43

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Memoirs of Hadrian by M. Yourcenar

Each building-stone was the strange concretion of a will, a memory, and sometimes a challenge. Each structure was the chart of a dream. p 128

A city: that framework constructed by