"Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there."
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"It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. But it was neither of those, buoyant where they were heavy, bright were they dull."
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"Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun."
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"Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment"
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"Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way."
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"Psychological knowledge has made us dull."
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"Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull."
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"I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession."
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"There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull."
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"A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop."
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"Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing"
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"If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!"
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"And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be heard of, say, I taught thee."
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"My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten."
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"The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest."
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"Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out."
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"Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace."
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"Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news."
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"There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?"
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"He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great."
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