"Happiness is the ability to recognize it."
"The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy The books that people talk about we never can recall And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all."
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Source: Carolyn Wells (1908). “The Carolyn Wells Year Book of Old Favorites and New Fancies for 1909”
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