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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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
New York
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
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