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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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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. – Samuel Butler

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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? – Samuel Butler

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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. – 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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Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. – Charlotte Whitton

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

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The best cure for boredom is hard work. – Proverb

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