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MysteRy · « **Reply #15 on:** March 20, 2016, 12:08:16 PM »

[highlight-text]The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

Voltaire

MysteRy · « **Reply #16 on:** March 20, 2016, 12:12:32 PM »

[highlight-text]A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

MysteRy · « **Reply #17 on:** March 20, 2016, 02:34:25 PM »

[highlight-text]Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

William Dean Howells

MysteRy · « **Reply #18 on:** March 20, 2016, 02:34:59 PM »

[highlight-text]A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

MysteRy · « **Reply #19 on:** March 20, 2016, 02:35:55 PM »

[highlight-text]We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once.

William Hazlitt

MysteRy · « **Reply #20 on:** March 20, 2016, 02:36:34 PM »

[highlight-text]We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore.

La Rochefoucauld

MysteRy · « **Reply #21 on:** March 20, 2016, 02:37:07 PM »

[highlight-text]A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Gian Vincenzo Cravina

MysteRy · « **Reply #22 on:** March 20, 2016, 02:37:34 PM »

[highlight-text]Boredom turns a man to sex a woman to shopping and it drives newscasters berserk.

Bruce Herschensohn

MysteRy · « **Reply #23 on:** March 20, 2016, 02:38:02 PM »

[highlight-text]The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.

Henry Mencken

MysteRy · « **Reply #24 on:** March 20, 2016, 02:38:36 PM »

[highlight-text]Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes: The Bores and the Bored.

Lord Byron

MysteRy · « **Reply #25 on:** March 20, 2016, 02:39:17 PM »

[highlight-text]Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

MysteRy · « **Reply #26 on:** March 20, 2016, 02:39:43 PM »

[highlight-text]He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever; he bores on architecture painting statuary and music.

Sydney Smith

MysteRy · « **Reply #27 on:** March 20, 2016, 02:40:10 PM »

[highlight-text]A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

John Updike

MysteRy · « **Reply #28 on:** March 20, 2016, 02:40:43 PM »

[highlight-text]Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

Charles Caleb Colton

MysteRy · « **Reply #29 on:** March 20, 2016, 02:41:15 PM »

[highlight-text]Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Bertrand Russell

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