H. L. Mencken Quotes About Boredom

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  • The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.

    H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.68, Knopf
  • The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

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    H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.49, 谷月社
  • The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

    Notebooks (1956) "Minority Report"
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