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A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
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At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead and then you deserve to be hung for it.
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God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, - it is greatness itself.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.
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