• The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

    William Makepeace Thackeray: The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.
    William Makepeace Thackeray (1857). “Miscellanies: Prose and Verse. ¬The Fitz-Boodle papers. Men's wives. A shabby genteel story. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond”, p.87