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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[London is a roost for every bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25454]]></link><description><![CDATA[London is a roost for every bird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25455]]></link><description><![CDATA[London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was born within the sound of Bow-bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25456]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was born within the sound of Bow-bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome!  With eager thirst, by folly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25457]]></link><description><![CDATA[London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome!  With eager thirst, by folly or by fate,   Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then in town let me live, and in town let me die For I own I can't relish the country, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then in town let me live, and in town let me die For I own I can't relish the country, not I.  If I must have a villa in summer to dwell,   Oh give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way was long and weary, But gallantly they strode,  A country lad and lassie,   Along the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way was long and weary, But gallantly they strode,  A country lad and lassie,   Along the heavy road.    The night was dark and stormy,     But blithe of heart were they,      For shining in the distance       The lights of London lay.        O gleaming lights of London, that gem of the city's crown;         What fortunes be within you, O Lights of London Town!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lungs of London. (Parks) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lungs of London. (Parks)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill,  As I came down the Highgate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25449]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill,  As I came down the Highgate Hill   I met the sun's bravado,    And saw below me, fold on fold,     Grey to pearl and pearl to gold,      This London like a land of old,       The land of Eldorado.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came to Gotham, where I saw many who were fools, if not all. [Lat., Veni Gotham, ubi multos,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came to Gotham, where I saw many who were fools, if not all. [Lat., Veni Gotham, ubi multos,  Si non omnes, vidi stultos.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye  Could reach, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25451]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye  Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping   In sight, then lost amidst the forestry    Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping     On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy;      A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown       On a fool's head--and there is London Town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London is the clearing-house of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25452]]></link><description><![CDATA[London is the clearing-house of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25453]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25453</guid></item></channel></rss>