“He had the satisfied countenance of a man who has never succeeded in boring himself.”
Peter Ackroyd book The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
Page 45.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)
“The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.”
The Fair Haven http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/fhvn10h.htm, Memoir of the Late John Pickard Owen, Ch. 3 (1873)
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