A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
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Of two evils choose the prettier.Carolyn Wells
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.
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'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day.
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We should live and learn but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.
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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.
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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.
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