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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint Exupery
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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Arnold Bennett
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That is certainly an issue, but not the primary focus right now. This ongoing saga with Iraq has kind of grown tiresome and hasn't had a lot of significance.

Scott Ryll
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The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.

Polly Adler
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

Jonathan Edwards
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It's very tiresome, it wears you out. By the time it's over with, you're ready to go home and sleep for a day and a half.

Marty Brennaman
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ROAD, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go. All roads, howsoe'er they diverge, lead to Rome, Whence, thank the good Lord, at least one leads back home. Borey the Bald.

Ambrose Bierce
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INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things. 'You tiresome man!' cried Indolentio's wife, 'You've grown indifferent to all in life.' 'Indifferent?' he drawled with a slow smile; 'I would be, dear, but it is not worth while.' Apuleius M. Gokul.

Ambrose Bierce
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The new concept for department stores and specialty stores has to be a smaller footprint, shopping carts, a 'spoke and wheel' layout where an inner circle leads to an outer circle instead of the tiresome grid layouts, and central checkout systems, ... Federated is making similar changes, by introducing a checkout counter for every seven departments within a store.

John Gifford
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It gets a little tiresome to read articles from people who don't understand the situation and continue to pick on someone who is working so hard.

Carl Sewell
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I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

Carol Moseley Braun
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Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.

W. Somerset Maugham
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It gets tiresome after a while.

Gwen Ifill
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[T]here is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

William Gaddis
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