Carolyn Wells Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Reading, Mind

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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.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• A profit is not without honor save in Boston.

  Carolyn Wells

  Boston, Honor, Profit

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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.

  Carolyn Wells

  Happy, Fun, Halloween

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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.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Library, Interest

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

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• A fool and his money are soon married.

  Carolyn Wells

  Money, Italian, Fool

  Carolyn Wells (1912). “The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady”

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• 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.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Reading, Writing

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