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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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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An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.
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A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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