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Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn’t turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were.

Bill Bryson

Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don’t think a clean pillow-case will make a difference…
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Average Home Thinking
Cheapness is a great virtue.
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Cheapness Great Virtue
Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.
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Country Murder Possibility
Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn’t look it, but somehow when you get out there it’s really steep and hard.
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Looks Maps Mean Wonderful
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
Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.
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Energy Matter Waiting
It’s an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe’s supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.
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Achievement May T Nightmare Wors
That’s the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it’s gone, it’s too late to get it back.
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Gone Late Mind Too
This much may have happened many times before. But this ancestral packet did something additional and extraordinary. It cleaved itself and produced an heir.
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Additional Cleaveed Produced Something
I’m quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it’d be a much better game for it.
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Games Generation Hands Player Vanish
Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don’t think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.
BILL BRYSON

Mean Mistake Thinking
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
A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.
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Newspapers Screens World
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
It’s hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you just look at the history of extinctions, we’ve killed off an awful lot of animals – and I don’t think we’re doing a very good job of looking after the planet.
BILL BRYSON

Animal History Human Jobs Pessimistic Thinking
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
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Ass Bad Badass Civilization

Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn’t turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were.

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