why i love english list

because writers exist in the world who write things like this:

BORING FRIENDS

We know only four boring people.  The rest of our friends we
find very interesting.  However, most of the friends we find
interesting find us boring: the most interesting find us the
most boring.  The few who are somewhere in the middle,
with whom there is reciprocal interest, we distrust: at any
moment, we feel, they may become too interesting for us, or
we too interesting for them.

— from Samuel Johnson is Indignant, by Lydia Davis

hearts.