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... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.
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Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself
Carolyn Wells
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The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy The books that people talk about we never can recall And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
Carolyn Wells -
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Carolyn Wells -
Of two evils choose the prettier.
Carolyn Wells -
musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
Carolyn Wells -
A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.
Carolyn Wells -
I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson's.
Carolyn Wells
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All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.
Carolyn Wells -
A profit is not without honor save in Boston.
Carolyn Wells -
how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.
Carolyn Wells -
Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.
Carolyn Wells -
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.
Carolyn Wells -
In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.
Carolyn Wells
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Every dogma must have its day.
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Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.
Carolyn Wells -
Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.
Carolyn Wells -
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
Carolyn Wells -
To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.
Carolyn Wells -
I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.
Carolyn Wells
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Reward is its own virtue.
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I don't believe the half I hear, Nor the quarter of what I see! But I have one faith, sublime and true, That nothing can shake or slay; Each spring I firmly believe anew All the seed catalogues say!
Carolyn Wells -
Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
Carolyn Wells -
Invitation is the sincerest flattery.
Carolyn Wells