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It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

Christian Nestell Bovee
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Christian Nestell Bovee's Popular Quotes

Example has far more followers than reason.

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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

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Our first and last love is self-love.

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The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

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When all else is lost, the future still remains.

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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

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Winter is the night of vegetation.

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