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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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Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. – Samuel Butler

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A mans friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. – Samuel Butler

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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom ones self to be bored. – Lady Bloomfield

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Living, just by itself –what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredoms the usher, there all the time to spy on you… – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Boredom

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

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I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself. – Jules Renard

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