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"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."
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"Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again."
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"Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."
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"Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom."
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"Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism."
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"Boredom is rage spread thin."
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"Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press."
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"Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat."
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"Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic."
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"The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting."
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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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