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Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

by Mark Twain

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Derek’s Quotes

“words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion within the human heart that can never be reversed.”
― Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons

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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

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