He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence meant displeasure.

Henry James
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  4. True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

  5. She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

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