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The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub

The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you. – Nancy Astor

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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate. – Nancy Astor

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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. – Nancy Astor

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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. – Evelyn Waugh

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Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. – Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself. – Gerald Brenan

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