Carolyn Wells Quotes - Page 3

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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

  Eye, Library, Wish

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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.

  Carolyn Wells

  Travel, Yards, Literature

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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

  Happy, Fun, Halloween

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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

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• A fool and his money are soon married.

  Carolyn Wells

  Money, Italian, Fool

  Carolyn Wells (1912). “The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady”

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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

  Book, Library, Interest

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

  Carolyn Wells

  Humor, Musician, Humour

  Carolyn Wells (2008). “Patty's Friends”, p.22, Wildside Press LLC

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