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“It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.”

Long Sometimes Home Company Bores

Author:David Hewson

“It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.”

Littles States Company Modern Bores Fatigue

Book:Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus

“The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.”

Long Enough Sleep Company Mouths Awake Bores Uncertain Promoting

Book:Harrington ; Thoughts on bores ; and, Ormond

Source: Harrington ; Thoughts on bores ; and, Ormond

“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.”

People Men Book Running Games My Own Pleasure Company Habit Conversation Resources Innocent Tendencies Dry Sensible Instruction Bores Tire Pipe Opium Smokers Praiseworthy

Book:Collected Short Stories

Source: Collected Short Stories

“Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big companies. Before the first olive has settled into the first martini, they pour the stories of their lives into the nearest and sometimes the remotest ears capturable.... These men have indeed paid the price of success. To rise to the top of a big company often takes a totality of effort, concentration and dedication. Others, too, have to pay part of the price. Wife and children are out of mind even when in sight.”

“We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.”

Persons Company Bores Weary

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld