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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

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. – Evelyn Waugh

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Wisdom
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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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Boredom
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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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Is boredom anything less than the sense of ones faculties slowly dying? – John Berger

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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always. – Guy Debord

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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. – Samuel Butler

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