Carolyn Wells Short Quotes

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He who loves and runs away, may live to love another day.

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It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library.

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Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.

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A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.

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

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Forgive us our Christmases as we
Forgive those who Christmas against us!

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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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Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

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

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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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One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.

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What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.

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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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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.

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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!

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A yardstick thus to himself did muse
As he walked along the street;
'I must buy a pair and a half of shoes
Because I have three feet.'

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The Bananaconda is thin,
With a reddish or yellow skin.
He's not quite a brute,
Nor exactly a fruit,
Though to each of them he is akin.

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When strolling forth, a beast you view
Whose hide with spots is peppered;
As soon as it has leapt on you,
You'll know it is the Leopard.

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A canner exceedingly canny
One morning remarked to his granny,
'A canner can can
Anything that he can,
But a canner can't can a can, can he?'

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They borrow books they will not buy,
They have no ethics or religions;
I wish some kind Burbankian guy
Would cross my books with homing pigeons.

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What! Out of Oil, Nothing to invoke
A Powerful Something, born of Fire and Smoke!
An Unremitting Pleasure, if it goes;
An Everlasting Worriment, if broke.

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A Tutor who tooted the flute,
Tried to teach two young tooters to toot;
Said the two to the tutor,
'Is it harder to toot or
To tutor two tooters to toot?'

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'Tis said, woman loves not her lover
So much as she loves his love of her;
Then loves she her lover
For love of her lover,
Or love of her love of her lover?

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A hen who resided in Reading
Attended a gentleman's weading.
As she walked up the aisle,
The guests had to smaisle,
In spite of the tears they were sheading.

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