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dullness quotes

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“It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.” Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
“Alas! . . . that so dull a spirit should be lodged in so goodly a form! Alas! that such an enterprise as the regeneration of England should turn on a hinge so imperfect!” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“'Why do nice women marry dull men?' 'Because intelligent men won't marry nice women.'” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.” Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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