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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

Dullness

PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

4.0 · 37 votes

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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

Dullness

PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

3.9 · 25 votes · 154 reads

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Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.

Dullness

AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Dullness

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

4.9 · 59 votes · 146 reads

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What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.

Dullness

Oliver Wendell Holmes

AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

3.3 · 43 votes

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