"Would I were in an alehouse in London."
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"But now behold, In the quick forge and working-house of thought, How London doth pour out her citizens!"
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"I hope to see London once ere I die."
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"They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all."
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"We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved."
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"And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER, Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day."
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"The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it."
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"On my early trips to London and Paris, in 2009, I started to shift to more wide-brimmed felt hats similar to Borsalinos and Stetsons."
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"That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England."
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"If you don't need to quit drinking, you shouldn't quit drinking. I used to really love to drink, and especially living in London, it's just built for drinking."
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"Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London."
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"Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times."
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"It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time."
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"When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary."
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"He dreamed of London and of a life that mattered."
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"London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties."
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"I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV."
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"In London, I really like going to the Mandarin Oriental. They can even do my feet without tickling me."
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"St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town."
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"London is like the grave in one respect -- any man can make himself at home there; and whenever a man finds himself homeless elsewhere, he had better either die or go to London."
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