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1 " If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted. "
2 " They ended up at the Old Corner Bookstore, which Brian had read about in a tour guide to Boston. " Longfellow and Hawthorne and Oliver Wendell Holmes used to read here. Let's go in." Brian nudged the girls until they obeyed.It was a regular bookstore, less history-minded than Brian had expected. In fact, the local history shelves were quite mangeable. I'll buy one book, he thought. This will get me launched in actual reading. Out of the zillions of choices, I'll find one here.Brian picked out Paul Revere and the World He Lived In. It was thick and somehow exciting, with its chapter headings and scholarly notes and bibliography. "
3 " Heroes are created by popular demand sometimes out of the scantiest materials . . . such as the apple that William Tell never shot the ride that Paul Revere never finished the flag that Barbara Frietchie never waved. "
