Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.
Our first and last love is self-love. - Christian Nestell Bovee
Our first and last love is self-love.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. - Christian Nestell Bovee
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
When all else is lost, the future still remains. - Christian Nestell Bovee
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit. - Christian Nestell Bovee
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.
In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers. - Christian Nestell Bovee
In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
Example has far more followers than reason. - Christian Nestell Bovee
Example has far more followers than reason.
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. - Christian Nestell Bovee
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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. - Christian Nestell Bovee
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.
Winter is the night of vegetation. - Christian Nestell Bovee
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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