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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
1. I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
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Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
2. On the 24th of May, 1863, my uncle, Professor Liedenbrock, rushed into his little house, No. 19 Königstrasse, one of the oldest streets in the oldest portion of the city of Hamburg.
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne