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It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.
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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Adhesion to one idea is monomania to few, slavery.
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The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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