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Bore

(noun) A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter. Example: "the bore of a cannon"

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"A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
— Oscar Wilde
"Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?"
— Groucho Marx
"Never be bored, and you will never be boring."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Passion goes, Boredom remains."
— Coco Chanel
"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
— Oscar Wilde
"It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe
"Beauty without expression is boring."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them."
— Marilyn Monroe
"Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink."
— Audrey Hepburn
"The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits."
— Albert Camus
"I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored"
— Albert Camus
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