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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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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. – Samuel Butler

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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. – Samuel Butler

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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. – Samuel Butler

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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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Perhaps the worlds second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. – Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton

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Boredom

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

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Is boredom anything less than the sense of ones faculties slowly dying? – John Berger

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