Carolyn Wells Quotes
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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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... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.
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I'm just the same age I've always been.
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A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.
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We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.
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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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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.
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... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.
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musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
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A profit is not without honor save in Boston.
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The way to do some things is to do them.
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At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature.
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Circumstances alter faces.
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Actions lie louder than words.
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Every dogma must have its day.
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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.
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Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.
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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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A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
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To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.
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Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.
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Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
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A fool and his money are soon married.
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Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.
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Invitation is the sincerest flattery.
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Where there's a will there's a detective story.
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I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result.
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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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Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.
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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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