Too much society makes a man ...

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
 Christian Nestell Bovee

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
 Christian Nestell Bovee
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
 Christian Nestell Bovee
A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.
 Christian Nestell Bovee
One must have been, at some time or other, in a situation where a small sum was as necessary almost as life itself, with no more ability to raise it than to raise the dead, before he can fully appreciate the value of money.
 Christian Nestell Bovee
Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.
 Christian Nestell Bovee