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
More, Prove, Discarded, Striving
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
Fate, Thousand Years, Rife, Boon
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
- Carolyn Wells
Mother, Guilty, Conscience, Invention
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
- Carolyn Wells
Eye, Mind, Looks, Cynic
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
- Carolyn Wells
Better, Than, Cleverness, Blunder
Of two evils choose the prettier.
- Carolyn Wells
Choose, Two, Prettier, Evils
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
Interest, Books, Makes, Library
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
- Carolyn Wells
Advice, Give, Receive, Blessed
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