We'd pull into small towns, and thousands of people would come to be rescued by this man,

I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious.

Admittedly, they [(places in novels)] didn't all have such ridiculous names as the ones in the Piddle Valley where her father's group of parishes was centered. It would have been hard to make credible a romantic fiction set in Farleigh Piddle, Middle Piddle, Nether Piddle and Piddle Dummer.

When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns.