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Bore -- a person who talks when you wish him to listen. - Ambrose

Bore — a person who talks when you wish him to listen. – Ambrose Bierce

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Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. – Ambrose Bierce

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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. – Ambrose Bierce

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Is boredom anything less than the sense of ones faculties slowly dying? – John Berger

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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but hes not boring. – Barbara Bush

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Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true. – William Inge

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A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. – Attributed to Goethe, by Huebsch

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