“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer
Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
“The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 65
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