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 with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
More Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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