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   The Conquest of Happiness

   Bertrand Russell

   “A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men… of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers, as though they were cut flowers in a vase.”

   Bertrand Russell on boredom and why our capacity for “fruitful monotony” is essential for happiness – immensely timely read from 1930:

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