Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibil

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

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