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

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Carolyn Wells
Age: 79 †
Born: 1862
Born: June 18
Died: 1942
Died: March 26
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Poet
Writer
Rahway
New Jersey
Carolyn Wells Houghton
Humor
Least
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Musicians
Rarely
Musician

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Actions lie louder than words.
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Where there's a will there's a detective story.
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Every dogma must have its day.
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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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Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.
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Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.
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Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.
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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 cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
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The wages of sin is alimony.
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I'm just the same age I've always been.
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Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.
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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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Society's the mother of convention.
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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.
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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.
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Invitation is the sincerest flattery.
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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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