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"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
— Samuel Johnson
“I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.”
“Nothing is certain in London but expense.”
“I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.”
“Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.”
Jane Austin
The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.
But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”
“I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.”
“Nothing is certain in London but expense.”
“I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.”
“Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.”
Jane Austin
"How dreadful that so many poor fellows have been killed at Waterloo; and what a blessing one knew none of them."
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