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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Christian Nestell Bovee
Age: 83 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 22
Died: 1904
Died: January 18
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New York City
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.
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There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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