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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee
Age: 83 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 22
Died: 1904
Died: January 18
Poet
New York City
New York
bovee
C. N. Bovee
Composed
Ingredients
Depends
Company
Society
Upon
Everything
Punch

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