Best Quotes by Carolyn Wells (Top 10)
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Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
Carolyn Wells
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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.
Carolyn Wells
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Actions lie louder than words.
Carolyn Wells
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The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry
The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy
The books that people talk about we never can recall
And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
Carolyn Wells
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A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
Carolyn Wells
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Of two evils choose the prettier.
Carolyn Wells
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A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Carolyn Wells
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Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
Carolyn Wells
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Every dogma must have its day.
Carolyn Wells
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'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet,
Could we bestow the gifts we get,
And keep the ones we give away,
How happy were our Christmas day!
Carolyn Wells
More Carolyn Wells Quotes
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Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself
Carolyn Wells
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A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
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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.
Carolyn Wells
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You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake.
Carolyn Wells