Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
It was a pleasure to burn.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do...
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book about the jungle called True Stories.
Two households, both alike in dignity...
You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. (Это моя новая любимая цитата, кажется.)
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes."
The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.
И у них еще нету обязательного "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins".
А что у нас там на русском языке? "Мой дядя самых честных правил", "У Лукоморья дуб зеленый" и "Однажды весною, в час небывало жаркого заката, в Москве, на Патриарших прудах..."? :)
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