"Gentle dullness ever loves a joke." — Alexander Pope

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• Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary… — Walter Bagehot
• The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one… — William James
• Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship… — Philip Yancey
• Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that… — George Santayana
• But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of… — Francis Bacon
• The devil's name is dullness. — Robert E. Lee
• I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an… — George Eliot
• In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both… — William Butler Yeats
• Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The… — Howard Zinn
• Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. — Edith Sitwell
• The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from… — Burl Ives
• A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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