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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
Voltaire Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous. Maimonides Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Happy the people whose annals are tiresome. Charles de Secondat 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. Arthur Helps I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy. Michel de Montaigne No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. Samuel Beckett Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. Voltaire The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. Jonathan Edwards There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. William Gaddis This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome. Robert Wyatt What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful. Sandra Day O'Connor |
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