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Famous Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
“Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.”
“Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.”
“Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.”
“We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.”
“Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.”
“The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.”
“Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.”
“It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.”
“Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.”
“Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.”
“To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.”