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... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.
Carolyn Wells
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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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A living gale is better than a dead calm.
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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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A profit is not without honor save in Boston.
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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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Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.
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Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
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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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musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
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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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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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We should live and learn but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.
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Circumstances alter faces.
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I'm just the same age I've always been.
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Invitation is the sincerest flattery.
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Where there's a will there's a detective story.
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