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Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee
Age: 83 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 22
Died: 1904
Died: January 18
Poet
New York City
New York
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C. N. Bovee
Morals
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
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Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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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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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.
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Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.
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Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.
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