Thursday, January 01, 2026

 

Big Cities

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?), The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs, ed. S.T. Joshi (New York: The Library of America, 2011), p. 560 (from The Devil's Dictionary):
METROPOLIS, n. A stronghold of provincialism.
Id., "One Kind of Officer," p. 96:
As the greatest cities are most provincial, so the self-complacency of aristocracies is most frankly plebeian.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 10:43 AM
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