Quotes by Bill Bryson

"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

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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."

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"We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb."

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"There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do."

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