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Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

Bill Bryson

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

Black People Self
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
South Dakota… is like the world’s first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.
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Deprivation Firsts World
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
That is jargon – the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement – and it is one of the great curses of modern English.
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Cruise English Implement Modern Restructuring
I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.
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Country Funny Inspirational
So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me free tape and prompt service but won’t help me out when I can’t remember a street name.
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Country Morning Moving
Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.
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Excitable People Self Wondered
Life just wants to be; but it doesn’t want to be much.
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Life Want Wonderful
Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education, where people wear three-piece suits and dark socks, often simultaneously.
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Cosmopolitanism Dynamic Simultaneously Socks Suits Wealth
I don’t know whether I’m misanthropic. It seems to me I’m constantly disappointed. I’m very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.
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Disappointed Misanthropic People Time Want
Although a few antibiotics have been toughened up a bit, the pharmaceutical industry hasn’t given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s.
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Antibiotic Industry Pharmaceutical
I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most English people look wrong in a baseball cap.
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Baseball Cap Looks People Wear
I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.
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Baseball Book Country Problem
The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus
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Education Excitement Lack Stimulus
… it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.
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Months Six Years

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