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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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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.
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The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.
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Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand talent writes them out at length.
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Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.
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New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.
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A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.
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Example has far more followers than reason.
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It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.
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Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
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We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true of nearly all of us, that what we have done is little compared with what we might have accomplished, or may hereafter effect.
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Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the fervor of the admiration it awakens. The beauty of a lovely woman is an inspiration, a sweet delirium, a gentle madness. Her looks are love-potions. Heaven itself is never so clearly revealed to us as in the face of a beautiful woman.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.
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To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.
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