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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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Adhesion to one idea is monomania to few, slavery.
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By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, - these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.
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Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.
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