Nobody who had not lived there would ever understand that London was a country unto itself. They might resent it for the fact that it held more power… - Robert Galbraith

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Nobody who had not lived there would ever understand that London was a country unto itself. They might resent it for the fact that it held more power and money than any other British city, but they could not understand that poverty carried its own flavour there, where everything cost more, where the relentless distinctions between those who had succeeded and those who had not were constantly, painfully visible.