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is a city of temporaries, a city of just-arrived and one-visitings, built on the shifting sands of politics, filled with people passing through.

Like a city in dreams, the great white Georgetown on the west to Anacostia on the east. It is a city of temporaries, a city of just-arriveds and one-visitings, built on the shifting sands of politics, filled with people passing through, [of Washington] Advise and Consent and Consent DRURY, Allen (1918 )

is a very easy city for one to forget where one came from and why one got there in the first place.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place. Harry S. Truman

is such that political life there is like political life in a suburban vestry.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly... culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere... their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial... and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there. Oscar Wilde

is a place where there are more lawyers than people.

In Washington DC, there are more lawyers than people.

is a place where they take the taxpayer's shirt and have a bureau in which to put it.

is a territory bounded on all sides by the United States of America.

is the only city where a few people are paid to keep the rest of us worried.

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