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18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

Bill Bryson

For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical correctitude sometimes proves easier to urge than to achieve.
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Book Grammatically Men Remembered Writing
It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn’t have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.
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Cows Fields Riding
If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you’ll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors.
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Appreciation Gratitude Mountain
Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.
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Devil Tree Want
Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.
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Excitable People Self Wondered
America has never quite grasped that you can live in a place without making it ugly, that beauty doesn’t have to be confined behind fences, as if a national park were a sort of zoo for nature.
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Beauty Behind Country Fences Grasped Making Nature
You can be a scientist and believe in god: the two can go hand in hand.
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Believe Hands Scientist
In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize that instead of a normal day ahead of you, with its scatterings of simple gratifications.
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Eye Morning Simple
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
I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.
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Country Funny Inspirational
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
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Book Disappointment Shopping
“Croissant”: However you choose to pronounce it at home, it is perhaps worth nothing that outside the United States, the closer you can come to saying “kwass-ohn,” the sooner you can expect to be presented with one.
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Croissants Home United States
In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe
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Matter Minutes Three
Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip.
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Better Feel Leaving Mind
Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments – each of us a musty archive of adjustments, adaptations, modifications and providential tinkerings stretching back to 3,8 billion years.
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Profound Vegetables Years
The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get much better than this.
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Always Better Excellent Food Shines

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