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Classical antiquity3 quotes
The country places and the trees won't teach me anything, and the people in the city do. — Socrates · 370 BCFor a city consists of men, and not of walls nor ships empty of men. — Nicias · 404 BCIt was divine nature which gave us the country, and man's skill that built the cities. — Marcus Terentius Varro · 27 BCThe Renaissance2 quotes
What is the city but the people? — William Shakespeare · 1616Behold now this vast city: a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty. — John Milton · 1644