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The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.
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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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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Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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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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Adhesion to one idea is monomania to few, slavery.
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The Breath becomes a stone the stone, a plant the plant, an animal the animal, a man the man, a spirit and the spirit, a god.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.
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When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.
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We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, - it is greatness itself.
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Few minds wear out more rust out.
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Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor the rich may dispense with it.
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Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.
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