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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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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth. – Ambrose Bierce

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Truth
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Ambrose Bierce
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People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. – Jeremy Collier

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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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Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative. – Le Duc de Lévis, Mémoires

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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. – Richard Bach

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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. – William Hazlitt

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Whatever is well said by another, is mine. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. – Guy Debord

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