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 pref… - Daniel Handler

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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.