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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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 fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Christian Nestell Bovee
At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead and then you deserve to be hung for it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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The cause of laziness is physiological it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.
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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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Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.
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Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.
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We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.
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As many suffer from too much as too little.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
Christian Nestell Bovee
In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Too much society makes a man frivolous too little, a savage.
Christian Nestell Bovee
