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Carolyn Wells
Age: 79 †
Born: 1862
Born: June 18
Died: 1942
Died: March 26
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New Jersey
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Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself
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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.
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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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... 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 wages of sin is alimony.
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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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Society's the mother of convention.
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At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature.
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Every dogma must have its day.
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Circumstances alter faces.
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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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Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
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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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musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
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The way to do some things is to do them.
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A living gale is better than a dead calm.
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I'm just the same age I've always been.
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A profit is not without honor save in Boston.
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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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