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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.
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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The very cunning conceal their cunning the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
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The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous too little, a savage.
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The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.
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