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"One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me."
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"If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!"

"There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom."

"It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos."

"What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place."

"Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press."

"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."
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"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

"All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order."

"Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline."

"So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women."

"To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably."
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