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When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.

When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Mean, Desire, Pay

The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Desire, Want, Natural
Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.190

I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Knowing, Evil, Desire

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Nature, Desire, Literature

A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Men, Justice, Desire
Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.44

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