I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.
Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.82, University of Missouri Press
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