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1 " Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument. "
― Lemony Snicket , Who Could That Be at This Hour? (All the Wrong Questions, #1)
2 " It is good to brush your teeth when you are angry, because you brush harder and do a better job. "
3 " They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie. "
4 " A secret note is secret. There is no reason to sign it. "
5 " There are two good reasons to put your napkin in your lap. One is that food might spill in your lap, and it is better to stain the napkin than your clothing. The other is that it can serve as a perfect hiding place. Practically nobody is nosey enough to take the napkin off a lap to see what is hidden there. "
6 " I led her into the newsroom, removed the sheet, and pointed to the statue of the Bombinating Beast. She gestured to me that I should be the one to take it. I gestured back that she was the chaperone and the leader of this caper. She gestured to me that I shouldn't argue with her. I gestured to her that I was the one who had gotten us into the house in the first place. She gestured to me that my predecessor knew that the apprentice should never argue with the chaperone or complain and that I might model my own behavior after his. I gestured to her asking what the 'S' stood for in her name, and she replied with a very rude gesture, and I grabbed the statue and tucked it into my vest. "
7 " There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging. "
8 " (on the Pip and Squeak asking for a taxi tip)"How about a tip?""Here's a tip," I said. "Next time you're at the library, check out a book about a champion of the world.""By that author with all the chocolate?""Yes, but this one's even better It has some very good chapters in it.""That's the kind of tip we can use," Squeak said. "Pip reads to me between fares. "
9 " It was impossible to tame, like leeches. "
10 " I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth. It is good to brush your teeth when you are angry, because you brush harder and do a better job. "
11 " That's true," the male officer said. "Stew Mitchum is as cute as a button."I tried to think of buttons I'd seen that liked to torture small animals, but I couldn't. "
12 " The map is not the territory," Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads. "
13 " Theodora glared at me, but Mrs. Murphy Sallis gave me a brief smile and offered me her hand, which was as smooth and soft as old lettuce. "
14 " They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind. "
15 " Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before. "
16 " There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch out nine rows of fourteen squares each. Then throw the piece of paper away and find whoever is screaming so you can help them. It is no time to fiddle with paper. "
17 " Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why. "
18 " You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so. "
19 " I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get into a huge war over a piece of jewelry that everybody wants but nobody can wear. "
20 " A mystery is solved with a story. "
