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• The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
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• There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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• One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.
  He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him. -- Christian Nestell Bovee...
• Next to God, we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth having.
  -- C Nestell Bovee, _Thoughts, Feelings, and Fancies_ (1857)...
• Invalids live longest. German Proverb
• A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake, as by never repeating it.
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• Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -- the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)...