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There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.
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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The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.
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Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
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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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A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.
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We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.
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