“But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case, welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.”
― The Penultimate Peril
― The Penultimate Peril
“If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.”
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“You’re noble enough, Baudelaires. That’s all we can ask for in this world.”
― The Penultimate Peril
― The Penultimate Peril
“Wicked people never have time for reading,” Dewey said. “It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― The Penultimate Peril
― The Penultimate Peril
“If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.”
― The Slippery Slope
― The Slippery Slope
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