• 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 Nevell Bovee
  American writer
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. self-consciousness
2. sensibilities
3. egotism
4. another
5. objects
6. tender

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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. by : Christian Nevell Bovee

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