Quippy and careful

Boston's Back Bay neighborhood reflected in the Charles River

— Photo by Robbie Shade

“Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn’t know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I’m one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.’’

—John Krasinski (born in Boston in 1979), actor and filmmaker

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“Proper Bostonians never talk about money. My father told me if I ever talked about money with a woman to take off the last zero.’’

— Cleveland Amory (1917-1998), essayist, historian, TV commentator and animal-rights activist and from a Boston Brahmin family