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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.

Bill Bryson

Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
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Automobile Being Everything Human
The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus
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Education Excitement Lack Stimulus
Life just wants to be; but it doesn’t want to be much.
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Life Want Wonderful
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
I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of shampoo they’ve left me.
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Kind Mean Rooms
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.
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Baseball Football Latin
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
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English People Speak Trying
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
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Age Along Lightning Rolling
The one upstairs room in which the Duke had resided was packed to the ceiling with hundreds of green boxes, each of which contained a single dark brown wig. This was, in short, a man worth getting to know.
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Boxes Getting Hundred Mna Upstair Worth
There’d never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition.
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America Government Years
If you believe in god, it’s much more fantastic to believe that he created this universe billions of years ago and set in motion this long train of activities that eventually resulted in us. I think that’s so much more satisfying, more thrilling, than the idea that it was all done in seven days.
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Believe Thinking Years
The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don’t actually know what we actually know.
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Knows Position Remarkable
It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.
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British Heritage Sometimes
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
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
Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose,
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Average Country Distance Home People

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