Distant City

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“Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy, a brilliancy of conversation—the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)