"Just a month after the completion of the Declaration of Independence, at a time when the delegates might have been expected to occupy themselves with more pressing concerns -like how they were going to win the war and escape hanging- Congress quite extraordinarily found time to debate business for a motto for the new nation. (Their choice, E Pluribus Unum, "One from Many", was taken from, of all places, a recipe for salad in an early poem by Virgil.)"
― Bill Bryson, Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
I love Bill bryson--I wish all nonfiction authors could create books with such an easy flow, yet pertaining extraordinary and meaningful insight.
