Greek City States

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“Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list—the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)

“No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

“I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.”
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