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A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

~Carolyn Wells

Topics: Better Blunder Cleverness Moment Right Right Moment Than Time Wrong Wrong Time

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A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

~Carolyn Wells

Topics: Conscience Guilty Invention Mother

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Of two evils choose the prettier.

~Carolyn Wells

Topics: Choose Evils Prettier Two

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

~Carolyn Wells

Topics: Cynic Eye His Looks Man Mind Who World

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Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

~Carolyn Wells

Topics: Advice Blessed Far Give More Receive Than Things Those

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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

Topics: Age Beg Boon Fate Fears Ills Life Middle Old Old Age Silly Simple State Thousand Thousand Years Years Youth

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It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

~Carolyn Wells

Topics: Books Interest Library Makes Takes

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I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

~Carolyn Wells

Topics: Achieving Am Crowned Discarded Efforts Facts Fond More Must Prove Soon Striving Success Than Theories Worthless I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 18th, 1862

Died: March 26th, 1942

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