| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 16198 |
| QUOTATION: | It is sometimes called the City of Magnificent Distances, but it might with greater propriety be termed the City of Magnificent Intentions.... Spacious avenues, that begin in nothing, and lead nowhere; streets, mile-long, that only want houses, roads, and inhabitants; public buildings that need but a public to be complete; and ornaments of great thoroughfares, which only lack great thoroughfares to ornament—are its leading features. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Charles Dickens (1812–1870), British novelist. American Notes, ch. 8 (1842). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Dickens Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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