"The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore:……" — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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• I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional… — Alan Ball
• I actually regard Facebook as a huge bore, but I cannot refrain from participating in it. I guess I crave… — Roseanne Barr
• Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. — Ambrose Bierce
• A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. — Josh Billings
• Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But… — Bjork
• I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife. — Louise Brooks
• What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing… — Julie Burchill
• The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler
• There is no bore like a clever bore. — Samuel Butler
• Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham. — Winston Churchill
• I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and… — Harlan Coben
• Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the… — Marcus Aurelius

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