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Society's the mother of convention.

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Carolyn Wells
Age: 79 †
Born: 1862
Born: June 18
Died: 1942
Died: March 26
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Rahway
New Jersey
Carolyn Wells Houghton
Conventions
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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.
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In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.
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What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.
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Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.
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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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Every dogma must have its day.
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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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Where there's a will there's a detective story.
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A living gale is better than a dead calm.
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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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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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... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.
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A profit is not without honor save in Boston.
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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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Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
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Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself
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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!
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I'm just the same age I've always been.
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musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
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