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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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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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Evelyn Waugh
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People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. – Jeremy Collier

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The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. – Norman Mailer

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

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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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