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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. - Evelyn Waugh

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. – 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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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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People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. – Jeremy Collier

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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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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. – Samuel Butler

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