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"Serene, indifferent to Fate, Thou sittest at the Western Gate."
San Francisco-no well-bred American, unless he comes from Chicago, ever says 'Frisco-is a delicious combination of wealth and wickedness, splendour and squalor, vice, virtue, villainy, beauty, ugliness, solitude and silence, rush and row-in short, San Francisco is just San Francisco, and that's all there is to it, as they say there. It was discovered and settled by Franciscan friars. It would be no place for them now.