Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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