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Solid men of Boston, banish long potations! Solid men of Boston, make no long orations! (Quote by - Charles Morris)

Massachusetts has been the wheel within New England, and Boston the wheel within Massachusetts. Boston therefore is often called the "hub of the world," since it has been the source and fountain of the ideas that have reared and made America. (Quote by - Rev. F.B. Zinckle)

And this is good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots, And the Cabots talk only to God. (Quote by - J. C. Bossidy)

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles. (Quote by - George Santayana)

I have just returned from Boston; it is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there. (Quote by - Fred Allen)

The sea returning day by day Restores the world-wide mart. So let each dweller on the Bay Fold Boston in his heart Till these echoes be choked with snows Or over the town blue ocean flows. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years a day; For thus such reverence is lent To well established precedent. (Quote by - Sam Walter Foss)

Then here's to the City of Boston, The town of the cries and the groans, Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks, And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns. (Quote by - Franklin P. Adams)

A Boston man is the east wind made flesh. (Quote by - Thomas Gold Appleton)

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty. (Quote by - Barbara Walters)

One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. . . . . And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf. (Quote by - Sam Walter Foss)

Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)

A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

I would rather be governed by the first three hundred names in the Boston telephone book than by the Faculty of Harvard University. (Quote by - William F. Buckley)

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