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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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At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead and then you deserve to be hung for it.
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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The very cunning conceal their cunning the indifferently shrewd boast of 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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Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor the rich may dispense with it.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
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Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.
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