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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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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C. N. Bovee
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Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.
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Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.
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Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
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Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor the rich may dispense with it.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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The Breath becomes a stone the stone, a plant the plant, an animal the animal, a man the man, a spirit and the spirit, a god.
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