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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
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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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Determination Influence Oneself Relationship
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Mistake Repeat Secret Sound
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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Company Compose Depend
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Depend Fame Truth Word
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule

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