Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.

Lemony Snicket


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It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.

Lemony Snicket


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Normally it is not polite to go into somebody’s room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead.

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There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.

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One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

Lemony Snicket

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The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.

Lemony Snicket


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Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.

Lemony Snicket

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Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

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It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.

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Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.

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