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I don’t know whether I’m misanthropic. It seems to me I’m constantly disappointed. I’m very easily disappointed.

Bill Bryson

Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don’t seem to wear shorts. American men seem to be comfortable wearing hot-weather clothing.
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Climate Men Weather
When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was all of my nighttime snores, condensed and frozen and pasted to the fabric, as if into a scrapbook of respiratory memories.
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Fabric Frozen Memories
Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.
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Memorable Pessimism Travel
Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.
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Fun Inspirational Sarcastic
The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn’t been here twelve hours and already they loved me.
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Hours Men Twelve
The lesson to draw from this, of course, is that when you move from one country to another you have to accept that there are some things that are better and some things worse, and there is nothing you can do about it.
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Accept Country Lesson Nothing Same Thing
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.
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Adaptability Term Useless
The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.
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Enormous Realize Scale Secret Way
Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.
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Earth Left Behind Records
Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.
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Kind Physics Simplicity
I must say, so long as the car is not actually moving. However, as soon as you put the car in motion … everything slides off … It can hold nothing that has not been nailed to it. So I ask you: what then is it for?
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Actually Ask Motion Must Nailed Say Soon
Everything that has ever lived, plant or animal, dates its beginning from the same primordial twitch. At some point in an unimaginably distant past, some little bag of chemicals fidgeted to life. It absorbed some nutrients, gently pulsed, had a brief existence.
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Animal Moving Past Same
You are going to have a day without even the tiniest of pleasures; you are going to drive across Ohio.
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Across Country Even Going Without
Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
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Fashion Matter Writing
Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations.
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Drug Effort Food Sensibility
Among the errors cited in this book are a number committed by some of the leading authorities of this century. If men such as Fowler and Bernstein and Quirk and Howard cannot always get their English right, is it reasonable to expect the rest of us to?
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Among Books Century Cities Critics Flower Leading Some

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