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Famous quotes containing the words rapid and/or city:

“It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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