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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Arthur Helps

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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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Sir Arthur Helps
Bored
Dying
Less
Sense
Anything
Faculties
Faculty
Boredom
Slowly

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