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Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
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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Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
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Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.
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Our first and last love is self-love.
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