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It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.
Oscar Wilde, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 18 (1891).
San Francisco is a mad city — inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
Rudyard Kipling, American Notes (1891).
I'd never set foot in San Francisco. Of all the Sodoms and Gomorrahs in our modern world, it is the worst. There are not 10 righteous (and courageous) men there. It needs another quake, another whiff of fire — and — more than all else — a steady trade wind of grapeshot.... That moral penal colony of the world.
Ambrose Bierce, letter (25 June 1907).
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