Carolyn Wells

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#guilty #guilty conscience #invention #mother

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#blessed #far #give #more #receive

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#blunder #cleverness #moment #right #right moment

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#eye #his #looks #man #mind

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

#am #crowned #discarded #discontinued #efforts

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 #library #makes #takes

Of two evils choose the prettier. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#evils #prettier #two

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

#beg #boon #fate #fears #i