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The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.
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
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable we do not expect him to be above it.
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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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A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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As many suffer from too much as too little.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.
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Example has far more followers than reason.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.
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The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.
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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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He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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