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More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. - [History] At this point I interrupted my sister as usual to say, "You have a way with words, Scheherazade." - Chimera (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] George is my name; my deeds have been heard of in Tower Hall, and my childhood has been chronicled in the Journal of Experimental Psychology. - Giles Goat-Boy [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK In the last years of the Seventeenth Century there was to be found among the fops and fools of the London coffee-houses one rangy, gangling flitch called Ebenezer Cooke, more ambitious than talented, and yet more talented than prudent, who, like his friends-in-folly, all of whom were supposed to be educating at Oxford or Cambridge, had found the sound of Mother English more fun to game with than her sense to labor over, and so rather than applying himself to the pains of scholarship, had learned the knack of versifying, and ground out quires of couplets after the fashion of the day, afroth with Joves and Jupiters, aclang with jarring rhymes, and string-taut with similes stretched to the snapping point. - The Sot-Weed Factor [Books (First Lines)]
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