Quote by Ambrose Bierce
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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Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce

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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom ones self to be bored. – Lady Bloomfield

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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, The Conquest of Happiness

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Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence. – Leo Stein

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Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. – C.C. Colton

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