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"You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it."
"There is worth everywhere and in everything we see."
"The value of a substance is the product of the time spent to achieve it."
"You are beloved; even if you were the last person on earth, the sun would rise for you."
"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."
"Too many people die early, either tragically or natural death, because they did not treat their lives with any sense of value."
"If your coming into the world was a mistake, then you are the most beautiful error in the universe."
"Water is gold in the desert."
Explore more quotes by Bill Bryson
"In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained the case in most well-heeled homes up until at least the time of the First World War."
"In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless."
"Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed."
"Shakespeare 'never owned a book,' a writer for the New York Times gravely informed readers in one doubting article in 2002. The statement cannot actually be refuted, for we know nothing about his incidental possessions. But the writer might just as well have suggested that Shakespeare never owned a pair of shoes or pants. For all the evidence tells us, he spent his life naked from the waist down, as well as bookless, but it is probably that what is lacking is the evidence, not the apparel or the books."
"Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener."
"She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude."
"In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face."
"If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it."
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