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was ours but getting and spending we didn't lay waste our powers.

London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Vienna, San Francisco -- I have
found them to be comfortable and easily familiar cities. If no
cit talks to you in London, the bobbies do give you directions.
If in Paris on a wet day the taxis skid three times to the block,
no one is ever hurt save in the vocabulary. But New York is still
to me very much what it was on that September evening in 1903.
Ogden Nash can have it. As for me, I would not take taxi from,
say, Ninetieth Street to the Village even to go to a party at
which the presence was guaranteed, under penalty, of Gandhi,
Frank Sullivan, Phyllis McGinley, Dr. Harvey Cushing, General
Göring, Bernarr McFadden, Representative Zioncheek, Evangeline
Booth, and J. Edgar Hoover complete with sawed-off shotgun. My
first day in New York has never quite ended. And eighty cents
still seems too much to pay for orange juice.

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