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• We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Forgiving

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 304, 1678.

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• Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

  Wallace Stevens

  Beauty, Art, Would Be

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.303, Univ of California Press

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• A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

  W. H. Auden

  Work, Thinking, Men

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• The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

  Marlon Brando

  Actors

  FaceBook post by Marlon Brando from Oct 06, 2011

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• Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

  Cecil Beaton

  Boredom, World, Firsts

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• The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Wise, Fear, Bores You

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• I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

  Louise Brooks

  Knives, Bores You, People

  "Lulu in Hollywood". Book by Louise Brooks, 1982.

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• Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Respect, Women

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• A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

  Bert Leston Taylor

  Men, Bores You, Boredom

  The So-Called Human Race (1922) p. 163

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• The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Witty, Powerful, Nice

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• The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Bores You, Boredom

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.935, Delphi Classics

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• People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

  Ezra Pound

  Ideas, People, Judgement

  1938 Guide to Kulcher, pt.1, section1, ch.5.

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• I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

  Edith Sitwell

  Art, Women, Inspiration

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book edited by Abby Adams, November 1, 1989.

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• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

  Orson Welles

  Funny, Want, Praying

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.

  Francois Truffaut

  Forgiving, Human Condition

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• Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

  Gertrude Stein

  Thinking, Names, Remember

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• Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

  Winston Churchill

  Europe, Birmingham, Chamberlain

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• A yawn is a silent shout.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Yawning, Boredom, Silence

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• Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

  Oscar Wilde

  Bores You, Boredom, Solitude

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• The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

  Edward Bond

  Punishment, Literature, Empires

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• There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  I Hate You, Ignorance, People

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• We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.

  J. A. Spender

  Remember

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• The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

  Voltaire

  Boredom, Secret, Brevity

  SAMUEL JOHNSON

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• He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Bored, England

  'Tread Softly' (1966) p. 147 (of Sir Anthony Eden)

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