Book Quotes by Carolyn Wells

Carolyn Wells

… the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.

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Carolyn Wells

I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result.

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Carolyn Wells

I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn’t it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson’s.

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Carolyn Wells

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 way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.

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Book Quotes by Carolyn Wells

… the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.

I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn’t it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson’s.

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 way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.

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