Carolyn Wells Quotes
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You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake.
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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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Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.
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Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
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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.
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Circumstances alter faces.
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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.