There is probably no hell for authors in the next world — t… - Christian Nestell Bovee

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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world — they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee (February 22, 1820 – January 18, 1904) was an epigrammatic New York writer.

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"There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.

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