“Doing anything when you're bored is veryboring. Anyway, isof being bored. Theof being bored isand”
Aidan Chambers (1934) British children's writer
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“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
— Voltaire
Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire.
"Sixième discours: sur la nature de l'homme," Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme (1738)
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