Self-complacent city

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“Boston is a curious place….When a society has reached this point, it acquires a self-complacency which is wildly exasperating. My fingers itch to puncture it.; to do something which will sting it into impropriety.’’

Henry Adams (1838-1918), famed historian, autobiographer and descendent of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams