May they vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be blunted.
- Psalm 58:7
here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use. That razor brain blunted and rusted with inaction.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The fine point of seldom pleasure has been blunted