#dullness

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor. ↗

— Charles Churchill

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I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. ↗

— Richard Powers

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The devil's name is dullness. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

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Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung. ↗

— Josephus Daniels

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He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others. ↗

— Samuel Foote

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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

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Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire. (The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.)" (Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme, 1738) ↗

— Voltaire

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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. ↗

— George Eliot

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