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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. - Evelyn Waugh

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. – Evelyn Waugh

Other quotes by Evelyn Waugh

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. – Evelyn Waugh

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Dreams
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Evelyn Waugh
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Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. – Evelyn Waugh

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Prison
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. – Evelyn Waugh

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Other Quotes from
Boredom
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Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative. – Le Duc de Lévis, Mémoires

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The best cure for boredom is hard work. – Proverb

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Boredom

A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. – Attributed to Goethe, by Huebsch

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Boredom

Bore — a person who talks when you wish him to listen. – Ambrose Bierce

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Boredom

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