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Quote by Samuel Butler
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than t

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. – Samuel Butler

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. – Samuel Butler

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Excess
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. – Samuel Butler

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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? – Samuel Butler

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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. – Evelyn Waugh

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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. – Samuel Butler

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A yawn is a silent shout. – G. K. Chesterton

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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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