The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.
More Quotes from Christian Nestell Bovée:
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.Christian Nestell Bovee
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and sadness are incompatible.
Christian Nestell Bovée
Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
Christian Nestell Bovee
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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