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Gathering some of our favorite sentences. Thought I would share.

“I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.” Bertie Wooster in P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest

“The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though on an anchored balloon.” Nick Carraway in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, chapter 1

“Cossette had had no mother; she had only had many mothers.” Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables; Saint-Denis and Idyll of the Rue Plumet, book three, chapter IV

“There may be a dragon in the mulberries.” N.D. Wilson’s Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl, “Spring Hiatus: Butterfly Lies,” page 120

“I have Bunburyed all over Shropshire on two separate occasions.” Oscar Wilde’s Importance of Being Earnest, Act I, Part II