"If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message."
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"When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull"
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"She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies."
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"Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats."
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"The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry."
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"I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull- because when people have seen you at your worst, you don’t have to put on the mask as much."
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"To make dictionaries is dull work."
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"No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste; everything is perfectly clean and pure and full of divine lessons."
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"Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull."
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"Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice."
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"Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion."
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"Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life."
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"I'm not very good at being dull."
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"To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm is upon their lips, might even tempt a charitable observer to suspect the fervency of their inward religion."
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"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"
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"Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined."
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"To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work."
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"However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos."
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"But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible for her to live alone."
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"And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on."
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