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Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.
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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Our first and last love is self-love.
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Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.
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A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.
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We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
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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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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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Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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All good writing leaves something unexpressed.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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