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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

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
bovee
C. N. Bovee
Youth
Insecure
Age
Sixty
Happiness
Forty
Life
Enjoyment
Generous
Tumultuous
Fortunate
Favorable
Period
Felicity
Periods
Vigorous

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