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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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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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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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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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A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
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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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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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