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1286. CITIES, Misery in.—[continued].

The general desire of
men to live by their heads rather than their
hands, and the strong allurements of great
cities to those who have any turn for dissipation
threaten to make them here, as in
Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery.—
To David Williams. Washington ed. iv, 514.
(W. 1803)