“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
— Jerome K. Jerome
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“We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren’t there enough of those in the world?”
— Rick Riordan, “The Red Pyramid”
“The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world’s luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.”
— Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson
“Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.”
(Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “Unknown Book 6600339”)
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