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

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Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true. – William Inge

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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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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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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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