"We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry."

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It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall.

— Louis Kronenberger