Quotes From "The Penderwicks On Gardam Street" By Jeanne Birdsall

...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's...
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...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick Jeanne Birdsall
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[The kitchen] was also messy--delightfully so, thought Jane--and it didn't look as though lots of cooking went on there. There was a laptop computer on the counter with duck stickers on it, the spice cabinet was full of Ben's toy trucks, and Jane couldn't spot a cookbook anywhere. This is the kitchen of a Thinker, she decided, and promised herself that she'd never bother with cooking, either. Jeanne Birdsall
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The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude, " said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a father at all. Jeanne Birdsall