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Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.
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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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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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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Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.
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