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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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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. – Samuel Butler

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It is bad enough to see one’s own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people’s rubbish fathered upon oneself. – Samuel Butler

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The best cure for boredom is hard work. – Proverb

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A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal unit. – Ivan Chtcheglov

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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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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. – Thomas Szasz

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