Places
- The City of London, the historic core of London and (by metonymy) the British financial services sector
- The City (mall), now The Outlets at Orange, a shopping center in California
- The City is a slang term for the city of San Francisco, California
- The City is a slang term for Manhattan, especially among those who live in the New York City Metropolitan Area.
- The City (Urbe) is used in classical Roman texts to refer to Rome, e.g. ab urbe condita.
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“Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“What greater light can be hoped for in the moral sciences? The subject part of mankind in most places might, instead thereof, with Egyptian bondage expect Egyptian darkness, were not the candle of the Lord set up by himself in men’s minds, which it is impossible for the breath or power of man wholly to extinguish.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)
“We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)