Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
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Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart. The present is burdened too much with the past.
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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
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Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
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The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.
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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
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To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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