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

Other quotes by Nancy Astor

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

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Age
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I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I dont want to do them. – Nancy Astor

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Age
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything… or nothing. – Nancy Astor

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Change
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Other Quotes from
Boredom
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. – Samuel Butler

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Boredom

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. – C.C. Colton

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Boredom

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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Boredom

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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Boredom

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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness. – David Augsburger

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