Half a capital and half a country town, the.... : Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble. ”

Robert Louis Stevenson
  • From : Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
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