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Boredom

Nothing is boring, except people who are bored.
Wealth gives no help for ennui except a choice of which chair to be bored in.

open quote Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism... inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own. close quote

-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism