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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
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Carolyn Wells
Age: 79 †
Born: 1862
Born: June 18
Died: 1942
Died: March 26
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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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A profit is not without honor save in Boston.
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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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Invitation is the sincerest flattery.
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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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Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.
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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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The wages of sin is alimony.
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Every dogma must have its day.
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Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.
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Actions lie louder than words.
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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.
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