Carolyn Wells Quotes

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• Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

  Carolyn Wells

  Happiness, Ability

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• Actions lie louder than words.

  Carolyn Wells

  Life, Lying, Action

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• Of two evils choose the prettier.

  Carolyn Wells

  Two, Evil, Decision

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• Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

  Carolyn Wells

  Heart, Nonsense, Grows

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• Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

  Carolyn Wells

  Common Sense, Care, Dignity

  Carolyn Wells (2007). “Patty at Home”, p.42, 1st World Publishing

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• 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!

  Carolyn Wells

  Christmas, Xmas, Years

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• One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.

  Carolyn Wells

  Perseverance, Principles, Firsts

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.

  Carolyn Wells

  Knowledge, Too Late, Live And Learn

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• Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

  Carolyn Wells

  Blessed, Giving, Advice

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

  Carolyn Wells

  Patriotism, Sin, Multitudes

  Carolyn Wells (1908). “The Carolyn Wells Year Book of Old Favorites and New Fancies for 1909”

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• The way to do some things is to do them.

  Carolyn Wells

  Way, Action

  Carolyn Wells (1901). “The Story of Betty”

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• A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

  Carolyn Wells

  Mistake, Moments, Blunders

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• Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

  Carolyn Wells

  Flattery, Invitations

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• A living gale is better than a dead calm.

  Carolyn Wells

  Gale, Calm

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• Every dogma must have its day.

  Carolyn Wells

  Dogma

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• 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.

  Carolyn Wells

  Effort, Facts, Affection

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• The wages of sin is alimony.

  Carolyn Wells

  Infidelity, Wages, Sin

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• 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.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Writing, Long

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• 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!

  Carolyn Wells

  Next Week, Two, Giving

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• 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

  Stupid, Silly, Fate

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• Where there's a will there's a detective story.

  Carolyn Wells

  Stories, Detectives, Detective Stories

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• '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!

  Carolyn Wells

  Christmas, Blessed, Giving

  Carolyn Wells (2016). “Childhood Essentials Library - Carolyn Wells Edition: 29 Novels & 150+ Poems, Stories, Fables & Charades for Children (Illustrated): Patty Fairfield Series, Marjorie Maynard Collection, Two Little Women Trilogy, Mother Goose's Menagerie, The Jingle Book, A Phenomenal Fauna, The Seven Ages of Childhood, Children of Our Town¦”, p.4002, e-artnow

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• Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.

  Carolyn Wells

  Imagination, Contentment, Results

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• A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.

  Carolyn Wells

  Evil, Criticism, Necessary Evil

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• I'm just the same age I've always been.

  Carolyn Wells

  Age

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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