I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations. β¨ Bill Bryson (2010). A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike, p.104, Random House
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- I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth. β¨ A Walk in the Woods. Book by Bill Bryson. Chapter 4 (p. 51), 1997.
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- You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an or β¦ βΆ
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