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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

Sharpen Blunt Mellow Personal
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Umm... my favourite Wizkid tune of all time would be 'Don't Dull' 'cos I recorded the track in, like, 5 minutes. The beat was ready, we went into the studio and freestyled, and it was ready. The song became really, really big, so I think 'Don't Dull' is still my favourite.

Beat Became Big Dull
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Afterwards Centuries
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Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.

Disease Danger Excitement Limb
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The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
The Truth Without Speak
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Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Details Distracted Doubly Everyone
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

America Black Body Brilliant
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Bad Dullness Excellence Good
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If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.

Been Cleared Dull Face
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No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Dull Feels Happiness He
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Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

Adventures Always Dull Lead
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.

Progress Human Pull Push
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.

Analysis Deeply Dreams Find
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Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.
Thoughtful Lightness Frivolity Dull
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Dull Found Lately Read
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Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.

About Being Develop Dull
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

Aphorism Blood Cold Dull
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Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.

About Around Book Comic
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Dullness in matters of government is a bad sign, and not a good one, especially in Nigeria.

Good Sign Matters Nigeria
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Bringing Business Dull Element
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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.

Another Arrange Constraint Design
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To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

About Blunder Dull Fantasy
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Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Because Dull Exciting Jersey
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Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.

About Experience Know Me
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His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.

Bill Dull Full Had
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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Marriage Woman Keen Right
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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

Also Conception Contrast Could
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My brain is dull, my sight is foul, I cannot write a verse, or read-- Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl, And let us have a lark instead.

My brain Sight Write Lark instead
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If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditch water.

Through life Refusing No changes Have nothing
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We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

All strive For safety Prosperity Comfort
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What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

What is Drama Life Dull bits
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Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Moments Happy Lover's Worth
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The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation

Lively Thought Inferior Sensation
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My greatest fear in life is being dull. You can be great, you can be awful, but just don’t bother being dull.

My Greatest fear Life Dull
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Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

Courtship Marriage Prologue Play
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow

Work Play Makes Boy
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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity

Classes Mind Destroy Creativity
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Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless

Labour Conquest Life Man
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

Business Passion Life Steadily
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