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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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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice
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Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement.
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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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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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It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?
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When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.
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As many suffer from too much as too little.
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The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.
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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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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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Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Justice, not the majority, should rule.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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