You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crowbar." Sir,--said I,--I am gratified with your remark.

It expresses with pleasing vivacity that which I have sometimes heard uttered with malignant dulness.

The satire of the remark is essentially true of Boston,--and of all other considerable--and inconsiderable--places with which I have had the privilege of being acquainted.

Cockneys think London is the only place in the world.

Frenchmen--you remember the line about Paris, the Court, the World, etc .-- -I recollect well, by the way, a sign in that city which ran thus: "Hotel l'Univers et des Etats Unis"; and as Paris IS the universe to a Frenchman, of course the United States are outside of it.
-- "See Naples and then die."-- It is quite as bad with smaller places.
I have been about, lecturing, you know, and have found the following propositions to hold true of all of them.
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