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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.
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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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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The very cunning conceal their cunning the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
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Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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