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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.
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The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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