Word: boredly
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...intend to bore you with philosophy, - with my peculiar views of the causes and effects of this state of things. I am only going to use this statement as an introduction to a warning lecture, which I sincerely hope that you will read. For a man's life cannot help being more or less evident in his appearance and his conversation; and a person whose existence is as deliberately monotonous as that of most of our compatriots will almost infallibly wear the same coat from morning till night, and talk nothing but shop. I have lately been reminded of this...
...have not already impressed upon you the folly of expressing an idea, which is not absolutely demanded, in the least different from that which happens to be popular, let me do it now. You will at once be set down for either a bore or a fool, and you will find neither reputation to your advantage. You need not think with the rest of the world, but it does not pay to tell them that...
...have any business, never speak of it out of business hours. Change your clothes when your work is over. I have known some ordinarily stupid men to be witty in evening dress. Pick up all the information that comes in your way. Reading, I know, is often a bore; but it is not difficult to supply its place with the aid of the American one-sidedness of some talkative old specialist. If you want to know something about a legal point, you had better ask a question or two, and start off an amiable lawyer on his profession...
...expect to know ladies whose acquaintance will be not only agreeable, but also useful to you, as you grow to be an older and a greater man. The refining influence of female society is a subject that has been so thoroughly exhausted of late years that I will not bore you by entering upon it. I shall only advise you to avoid what I call gentlemen ladies, - the converse of ladies' men, - fair creatures who are more popular with our sex than with their own. Whether truly or not, it always seems to me that they accommodate themselves...
...bore you with any more illustrations. You can soon learn how to laugh at people, and how to make them think that you are laughing with them. And when you learn that, ennui will vanish, and you will be as consummate a man of the world...