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Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.

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Daniel Handler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 28
Accordionist
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Musician
Novelist
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San Francisco County
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Lemony Snicket
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A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult. In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.
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I opened my mouth and kissed you then, the first time all night, attacked you and surrendered completely, and let’s get out of here. I’m ready, I’m finished, let’s not break up, no, no. Take me home, my boyfriend, my love.
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The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.
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Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.
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Hup hup ha ha hammy hee hee!
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When you need a haircut, it looks like you have no one to take care of you.
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The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.
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Hal is on his way. The nurse announced reentering the room.
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Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.
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Count Olaf certainly does sound evil. Imagine forcing children to stand near a stove!
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Dumping you times infinity. Still not enough.
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Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.
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The sad truth is the truth is sad.
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There is a pair of snakes who have learned to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize.
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If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down
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If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters.
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Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.
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It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.
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There are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them.
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Like People, animals will become frightened and likely do whatever you say if you whip them enough.
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