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Carolyn Wells
American
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About the author
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
Carolyn Wells,
American
Author
#Mother
#Invention
#Conscience
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Carolyn Wells,
American
Author
#Eye
#World
#Man
#Mind
#Cynic
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
Carolyn Wells,
American
Author
#Advice
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,
American
Author
#Success
#Theories
#Facts
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,
American
Author
#Books
#Interest
Of two evils choose the prettier.
Carolyn Wells,
American
Author
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,
American
Author
#Life
#Years
#Youth
#State
#Old
#Age
#Fate
#Silly
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
Carolyn Wells,
American
Author
#Time
#Right
#Wrong
#Cleverness