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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
Poet
New York City
New York
bovee
C. N. Bovee
Paid
Woman
Sense
Women
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Compliment

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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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