A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow processes of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers, as though they were cut flowers in a vase.
Source:The Conquest of Happiness, 1930, chap.4: Boredom and excitement
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