For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long gone, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means "place where I have collected passages from the most important books I have read." These passages hold some of the most crucial secrets in this sad and flammable world. ("Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography")
For what purpose were the passions implanted? That man by struggling with them might attain a degree of knowledge denied to the brutes; whispers Experience. (206)
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