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  • Cambridge has always tried to be more typical and less exotic than the other place.

    -Anonymous
      In The Listener,14  Aug.'The other place' has traditionally come to be used of Cambridge from an Oxford viewpoint and vice versa.

  • New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

    - Djuna Barnes
      'Greenwich Village  As It Is', in Pearson's Magazine, Oct.

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