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- Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior… — Christian Nestell Bovee
- He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others. — Samuel Johnson
- It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to… — Herman Melville
- Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory… — Washington Irving
- Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which… — George Eliot
- Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed… — Percy Bysshe Shelley