Carolyn Wells Quotes - Page 2

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• Reward is its own virtue.

  Carolyn Wells

  Rewards, Virtue

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• A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

  Carolyn Wells

  Mother, Guilt, Invention

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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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• Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

  Carolyn Wells

  Advice, Devil, May

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

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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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• Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.

  Carolyn Wells

  Flirting, Envy, And Love

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• Society's the mother of convention.

  Carolyn Wells

  Mother, Society, Conventions

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• Circumstances alter faces.

  Carolyn Wells

  Faces, Circumstances

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• 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.

  Carolyn Wells

  Friendship, Book, Giving

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• At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature.

  Carolyn Wells

  Nature, Unnatural

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• musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

  Carolyn Wells

  Humor, Musician, Humour

  Carolyn Wells (2008). “Patty's Friends”, p.22, Wildside Press LLC

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• In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.

  Carolyn Wells

  Past, People, Giving

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

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• I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.

  Carolyn Wells

  Christian, Grace, Biographies

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

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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.

  Carolyn Wells

  Fire, Two, Library

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

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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.

  Carolyn Wells

  Successful, Advice, Credit

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

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• A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

  Carolyn Wells

  Eye, Men, Mind

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• 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!

  Carolyn Wells

  Spring, Believe, Sublime

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• Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.

  Carolyn Wells

  Girl, Book, Car

  Carolyn Wells (1915). “The White Alley”

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• ... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

  Carolyn Wells

  Eye, Library, Wish

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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.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Thinking, Numbers

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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.

  Carolyn Wells

  Uplifting, Men, Color

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

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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.

  Carolyn Wells

  Apology, Pride, Fire

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

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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.

  Carolyn Wells

  People, Crowds, Grew

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• I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices.

  Carolyn Wells

  Fashion, Hate, Home

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

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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.

  Carolyn Wells

  Travel, Yards, Literature

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