Carolyn Wells Quotes
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Circumstances alter faces.
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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.
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In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.
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Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
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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.
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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.
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It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.