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Carolyn Wells

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

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

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