It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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