... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift,… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker. — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
“Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance whose presence is least desired, but most rewarding when embraced."- Carolyn Wells, Start… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
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… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
“Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.” — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
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