The plural of spouse is spice.

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.

All students can learn.

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.