Top 58 Carolyn Wells Quotes
#2. A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
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#3. See my finger wet, see my finger dry, see my finger cut my throat if I tell a lie," said the girl, in a singsong tone, and with accompanying dramatic gestures of fearful histrionic fervour.
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#4. One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.
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#5. Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.
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#6. Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.
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#8. In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.
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#9. What is the use of having an imagination if you can't make it work for you?
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#10. She was enveloped from head to foot in a raccoon fur coat, with a jaunty hat of the same, trimmed only with a bright quill feather.
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#11. 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!
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#12. Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.
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#13. 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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#14. Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself
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#15. Where there's a will there's a detective story.
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#17. A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
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#18. At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature.
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#19. I love the Christmas-tide, and yet,
I notice this, each year I live;
I always like the gifts I get,
But how I love the gifts I give!
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#20. Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.
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#21. What you can't afford to lose, you can't afford to buy
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#22. What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.
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#23. As beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.
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#24. 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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#26. A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.
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#27. 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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#29. One never knows what difference anything will make until the difference is made.
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#30. 'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet,
Could we bestow the gifts we get,
And keep the ones we give away,
How happy were our Christmas day!
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#31. A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
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#33. Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.
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#34. 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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#36. 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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#37. 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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#39. Musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
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#40. We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.
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#41. By the way, remember that, all of you. On no account go up to the fourth floor.
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#44. 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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#46. Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!
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#49. 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.
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#50. There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,
or enemies,
or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.
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#51. I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.
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#52. 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.
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#53. Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.
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#54. When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough.
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#56. 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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#57. Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
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#58. Since you have a choice between life and death, why not choose life and live.
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