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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

Christian Nestell Bovee

American Author

Born: Feb 22, 1820

Died: Jan 18, 1904

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Our, Objects, Morbid, More, Only, Allied, Tender, Excessive, Self-Consciousness, Name, Make, Another, Selves, Cure, Closely, Egotism, Sensibilities, Sensibility, Less

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