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“... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.”

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Carolyn Wells, an American author born on June 18, 1862, and died on March 26, 1942, is renowned for her works in children's literature. Her stories are cherished for their rich imagination and delicate emotions. more

“I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices.”

Source: The Rest of My Life

“I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.”

Trying Interest Animal Primaries Propagandist

Author:David Attenborough

“All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.”

People Born Grew Mets Grew Up Crowds

Author:Carolyn Wells

“... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.”

Men Firsts Heard Color Thousand Standards Ideals Miles Uplifting Desert Aspiration Get Away Destination Speakers Traveled Acquaintance Thousand Miles Chameleon Scholarly

Book:The Rest of My Life

Source: The Rest of My Life

“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.”

Thinking Knows Book Results Numbers Research Incredibles Hopefully Carrie Shelves Hints Refrain

Author:Carolyn Wells

“Look well to the hearthstone; therein all hope for America lies.”

Wells Looks Heart Home America Lying

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.”

America Economic Danger Position Ideals

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin of safety. If taxes and debt are made all the people can bear when times are good, there will be certain disaster when times are bad.”

People Ifs Needs Made Government Certain Bears Taxes Concern Safety Debt Wide Disaster Good Times Keep Going Continuing Margins

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is serving his country. He cannot hold himself above his fellow men. The greatest place of command is really the place of obedience, and the greatest place of honor is really the place of service.”

Men May Mean Real Country Individual Born Honor Fellows Institutions Command Obedience Serving Sovereignty Fellow Man Livelihood

Author:Calvin Coolidge

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