Small City Franchise

Famous quotes containing the words small, city and/or franchise:

    “But the cat is grown small and thin with desire,
    Transformed to a creeping lust for milk.”
    —Harold Monro (1879–1932)

    “I counted two and seventy stenches,
    All well defined and several stinks!
    Ye Nymphs that reign o’er sewers and sinks,
    The river Rhine, it is well known,
    Doth wash your city of Cologne;
    But tell me, Nymphs! what power divine
    Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    “To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise ...”
    —Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906)