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• There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
  -- Christian Nestell Bovee...
• Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
• The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
• It is better to wear out than to rust out.
• The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards.
  Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness. -- Christian Nestell Bovee...
• Life is to the universe as rust is to iron. We are
  in the final judgement (on a planetary scale, certainly), nothing more than an advanced form of corrosion, just one more way for the universe to wear itself out a little faster....
• 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...