"Cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea."

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A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.

— Henry Ward Beecher