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An ever-growing collection of, you guessed it, the first sentence of the 42nd page of ALL THE BOOKS. And quite a few books exist.

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Rats!

The Very First Shoe Book, by Jeff MacNelly

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More light, you knaves, and turn the tables up; / And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot.

Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare

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Linger your patience on, and we’ll digest / Th’ abuse of distance, force a play.

Henry V, by William Shakespeare

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It was a complex chain of oppression in Virginia.

A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn

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On the morning of April 15, 1974, my family accompanied me to the People’s Square.

Red Azalea, by Anchee Min

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‘But the point is—’

The Tao of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff

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The presence was immense, lifeless, yet throbbing with its secret message.

Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya

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By the Indian’s side, and evidently sustaining a companionship with him, stood a white man, clad in a strange disarray of civilized and savage costume.

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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I don’t compact with no Devil!

The Crucible, by Arthur Miller

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Only, Clara is so down on me if I am not positively reeking with the latest slang.

Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw

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We rode hard all the way, till we drew up before Doctor Livesey’s door.

Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson

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When John Thornton froze his feet in the previous December, his partners had made him comfortable and left him to get well, going on themselves up the river to get out a raft of saw-logs for Dawson.

The Call of the Wild, by Jack London

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The train entered the defiles of the Sutpour Mountains, which separate the Khandeish from Bundelcund, towards evening.

Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne

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“Cabinet,” recited the duke: “1. a small private room or closet, case with drawers, etc., for keeping valuables or displaying curiosities; 2. council room for chief ministers of state; 3. a body of official advisers to the chief executive of a nation.”

The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster

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1 fresh sea bass or, if not available, porgy (about 1 1/2 pounds), cleaned and scaled but with head and tail left on

The New York Times International Cook Book, by Craig Claiborne

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‘Of course there’s no need to give him up.’

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

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They only rid the canton of its few half-wild dogs.

Life of Pi, by Yann Martel