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It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. - [Safety] Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. - [Fools] There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love. - [Love] One morning in the late summer of 1930 the proprietor and several guests at the Union Hotel at Crestcrego, Texas, were annoyed to discover Biblical texts freshly written across the blotter on the public writing-desk. - Heaven's My Destination [Books (First Lines)] Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?--every, every minute? - Our Town [Life] On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below. - The Bridge of San Luis Rey [Books (First Lines)] In the summer of 1902 John Barrington Ashley of Coaltown, a small mining center in southern Illinois, was tried for the murder of Breckenridge Lansing, also of Coaltown. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. Five days later, at one in the morning of Tuesday, July 22, he escaped from his guards on the train that was carrying him to his execution. - The Eighth Day [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK The earth sighed as it turned in its course; the shadow of night crept gradually along the Mediterranean, and Asia was left in darkness. - The Woman of Andros [Books (First Lines)]
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