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If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart. - [Forgiveness] When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape. - Good-Bye, Mr. Chips (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Cigars had burned low, and we were beginning to sample the disillusionment that usually afflicts old school friends who have met again as men and found themselves with less in common than they had believed they had. - Lost Horizon [Books (First Lines)] On the morning of the eleventh of November, 1937, precisely at eleven o'clock, some well-meaning busybody consulted his watch and loudly announced the hour, with the result that all of us in the dining car felt constrained to put aside drinks and newspapers and spend the two minutes' silence in rather embarrassed stares at one another or out of the window. - Random Harvest [Books (First Lines)] That day so well remembered--a day, indeed, impossible to forget--was the first of September, 1921; on the morning of which George Boswell--then only Councillor Boswell, then sandy-brown-haired with not a trace of gray--woke before dawn, looked at his watch, and promptly slept again till Annie brought in the morning paper, a cup of tea, and some letters that had just arrived. - So Well Remembered [Books (First Lines)] Toward midnight Charles Anderson finished some notes on a talk he had had had with a newspaper editor at lunch--nothing very important, but he though he ought to keep Bingay decently informed. - Time and Time Again [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK One cold gusty night in December a boy rang the bell of the doctor's house in Shawgate, and when Susan came to the door left word that there had been an accident to a dancer at the local theatre and would the doctor please come at once. - We Are Not Alone (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on. - We Are Not Alone (prologue) [Books (First Lines)]
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