I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
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… — 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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