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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.

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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”

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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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Figure Final Grasp Inessential Large Nobel Overcoat Prerogative Prize Scheme Thing
But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.

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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Balck Cambridge Contrast Day Fairstory Hard Leed Seem Something Sooty
The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Case Involve Longer Medicine More Trouser Two Type
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Chance never Next Now Out Sometimes
One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.

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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Raed
We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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Down Mean No Period Recent Remote See
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Device Ignite
So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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Dozen Extent Half Own
We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.

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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Fault Many Partly So Still
God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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Either Jesus Christ Mote
They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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Dishwasher Empt Nativity Pen Round Saga Sainsbury Threat Trailing
A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.

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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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Proprietor Composite Made Neighbour Publisher Remembrance Though Too
My experience came before most of you were born.
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Before Came
The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.

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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Across Best Feel Moment Raed Something Special Particular Thought
It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.

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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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Go Like Out Total Wipe
However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Church Incapable Return Sacrament Weather

There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.

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