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“At all events, the next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.”

Christian Nestell Bovee

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume II, p. 124.

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“It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.”

Christian Nestell Bovee

Quoting Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), p. 132.
Misattributed

“Melancholy sees the worst of things,—things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.”

Christian Nestell Bovee

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume II, p. 52.

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