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Qualcosa di Bello at Piacere tag me for this after I've done this. So I'm going to do another with a different book. Here's the text:

An equally good rule is that if something is broken you shouldn't try to fix it either. That's what trained professionals with vans are for. In the past, fixing big things required lathes, blow torches and angle grinders. These days we have glue.

From the Never hit a jellyfish with a spade: How to survive life's smaller challenges by Guy Browning from the chapter title: How to fix things. (I added a fourth sentence as it make more sense.) It's quite a hilarious book. I'm not going to tag anyone but anyone reading this can tag themselves.

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I saw this on Keith's Ramblings.

The rules: Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!)
Find Page 123 then dismiss the first 5 sentences. Post the next 3 sentences. Tag 5 people. I'm not going to tag anyone but anyone can tag themselves.

The bleeding stopped after a day and the pain stopped after a week. They buried Domingo and for the first time and last time Inigo left Arabella. His face bandaged, he rode in Yeste's carriage to Madrid, where he lived in Yeste's house, obeyed Yeste's commands.

From The Princess Bride by William Goldman.