For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
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How pleasant it was in the garden! And how delightful other people's emotions were! -- much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him. One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends -- those were the fascinating things in life. He pictured to himself with silent amusement the tedious luncheon that he had missed by staying so long with Basil Hallward. Had be gone to his aunt's, he would have been sure to have met Lord Goodbody there, and the whole conversation would have been about the feeding of the poor and the necessity for model lodging-houses. Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives. The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift, and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour. It was charming to have escaped all that!
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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.
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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
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The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
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I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
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The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.
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It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.
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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
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If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.
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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
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Let us go singing as far as we go the road will be less tedious.
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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.
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Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
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Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
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Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
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If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.
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In respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but in respect it is not in the court, it is tedious.
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work.
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I see a man's life is a tedious one.
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