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Life just wants to be; but it doesn’t want to be much.

Bill Bryson

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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Beer Coffee Travel
There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.
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Littles Thinking Toothpaste
Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence.
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Believe Cities Clever
As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn’t go quite so far around it as others.
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Kind Life World
There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting.
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Distance Long Phones
I understand now, in a way I never did before, the colossal scale of the world. I found patience and fortitude that I didn’t know I had. I discovered an America that millions of people scarcely know exists. I made a friend. I came home.
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Country Discovered Found Million Patience People
You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don’t want to live with them.
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May Parents People
Des Moines is like your typical American city; it’s just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.
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Circles Cities Typical
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
Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings – every bit of it.
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Evening Maps Shower Summer Survey
My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.
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Judging Skins Travel
Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and notice, with a kind of first-time astonishment.
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Firsts Perfect Together
English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman’s apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.
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Asking Gentleman Mean
That may not be the profoundest of insights to take away from a morning’s outing, but I did get a free doughnut as well, so on balance I guess I’m happy.
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Balance Guess Happy Insights Morning Outing Profounded
Woods are not like other spaces. To begin with, they are cubic. Their trees surround you, loom over you, press in from all sides. Woods choke off views & leave you muddled & without bearings.
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Children Confused Loom Press Views
There is no reason why we shouldn’t be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren’t available to the Romans.
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Air Coffee Country Language Splits

Life just wants to be; but it doesn’t want to be much.

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