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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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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The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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