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Quote by H.L. Mencken
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastl

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. – H.L. Mencken

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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. – H.L. Mencken

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It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. – H.L. Mencken

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Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. – Gian Vincenzo Gravina

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A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. – Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race

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Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes. – Jules Renard

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Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. – William Dean Howells

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It is easy to fly into a passion… anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy. – Aristotle

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