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Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.
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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
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For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
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Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute, and a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns.
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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
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I never was on the dull, tame shore,
But I loved the great sea more and more.The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. -
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
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If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader.
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
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