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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.
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