Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
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William Ralph Inge Quote
“The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.”
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