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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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Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.
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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.
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The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.
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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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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
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Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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