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The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

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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Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
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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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Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
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Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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