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    Originally Posted By monorailblue

    "There is hereby imposed on the taxable income of every married individual (as defined in section 7703) who makes a single return jointly with his spouse under section 6013, and every surviving spouse (as defined in section 2(a)), a tax determined in accordance with the following table: . . . ."
     
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    Originally Posted By MissCandice

    I don't know, but I don't think that is a book I am going to rush out and buy.
     
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    Originally Posted By MrToadWildRider

    That's like the M section of some state's general laws or something is my guess
     
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    Originally Posted By MrToadWildRider

    or maybe just a section on taxation but I don't see how it'd be the first line...
     
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    Originally Posted By monorailblue

    Oh, come on---it is the first sentence of the very first section of a very, very long "book." Keep on guessing . . . .
     
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    Originally Posted By monorailblue

    OK--no one wanted to guess. The answer is the "Internal Revenue Code." So much for that.

    Umm. . . .

    Someone else please go ahead. The only things I can think of will never be guessed by anyone sane.
     
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    Originally Posted By GGGF

    Infernal Revenue Service, eh? Scary! :)

    How's this:

    "MR. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable."
     
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    Originally Posted By monorailblue

    Something written by Dickens is my guess.
     
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    Originally Posted By GGGF

    Sorry, but no.
     
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    Originally Posted By MissCandice

    Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Louis Stevenson
     
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    Originally Posted By GGGF

    That be it!
     
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    Originally Posted By MissCandice

    "There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
     
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    Originally Posted By GGGF

    Voyage of the Dawn Treader?
     
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    Originally Posted By MissCandice

    Yeppers. Go ahead.
     
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    Originally Posted By GGGF

    "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."
     
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    Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x

    David Copperfield
     
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    Originally Posted By GGGF

    yup.
     
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    Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x

    And I actually knew that one! :)

    "The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended."
     
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    Originally Posted By basil fan

    Clan of the Cave Bear?

    Wild guess

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    Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x

    Nope...never heard of that one.
     

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