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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 40066 |
| QUOTATION: | A trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Wilson Mizner (1876–1933), U.S. dramatist, wit. Quoted in The Legendary Mizners, ch. 4, Alva Johnson (1953). Mizner’s description of Hollywood was reworked by Mayor James J. Walker: “A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.” (Speech as mayor of New York, 1928). |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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