Places

(115 votes)   The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(112 votes)   The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.

Jean Baudrillard
French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer

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(109 votes)   God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belovFd over all.

Rudyard Kipling
1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse

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(107 votes)   A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.

Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

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