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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.

— Carolyn Wells

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

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

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

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

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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