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• Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
  If you are civil to the voluble, they will abuse your patience...
• Few minds wear out; more rust out. --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
• The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards.
  Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness. -- 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)...
• 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...
• Man are beasts, and even beasts don't behave as they do.
• The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 511