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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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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

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They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

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Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

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I do find it odd people choose to do stuff that makes them look like crazy Hollywood faces, but I've got zero judgment. ↗

— Julie Bowen

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I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes. ↗

— Julie Bowen

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