Samuel Johnson: (1) “By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.” (2) “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.” (3) “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
Benjamin Disraeli: “London is a roost for every bird.”
V. S. Naipaul: “I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.”
Charles Dickens: “This is a London particular . . . A fog, miss.”
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