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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.

Bill Bryson

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
I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.
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Behaviour Long Social
All the things that are part of your heritage make you British – that makes this country what it is. It’s part of your history. And here, unlike America, it’s still living history.
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Country Heritage History Thing
There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo.
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Incidentally Such Things
Everywhere throughout New England you find old, tumbledown field walls, often in the middle of the deepest, most settled- looking woods- a reminder of just how swiftly nature reclaims the land in America.
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Country Deepest Land Look Wall
Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls – you don’t find a sense of community in malls.
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Community Downtown Iowa
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
Life just wants to be; but it doesn’t want to be much.
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Life Want Wonderful
We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way?
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Frustrating Infinite Live Person Possibly
Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.
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Dog Earth Want
The first book I did – the first successful book – was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.
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Book First Successful
As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not ready for this level of oral hygiene.
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Hygiene Needs Thumbs
Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.
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Desperate Higher Known Maintaining Reduced Tried
A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name.
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Billion Buddha Name
I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.
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Anonymous Cities Feelings Travel
I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.
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Des Moines Someone

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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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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