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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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There is nothing, says a correspondent of the New York Times, which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.
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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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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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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
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Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
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