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"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." »Bert Leston Taylor
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"Every hero becomes a bore at last." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A big book is a big bore." »Callimachus (c. 260 B.C.)
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"We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore." »Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." »Voltaire
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"bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude." »Oscar Wilde
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"The surest way to get rid of a bore is to lend money to him." »Paul Louis Courier
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"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." »Samuel Butler
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"bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen." »Ambrose Bierce
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"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible." »Frank Moore Colby
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"A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company." »Gian Vincenzo Gravina
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"bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come." »William H. McNeill
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"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault." »Henry Kissinger
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"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals." »H. L. Mencken
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"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal." »H.L. Mencken
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"The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore." »H. L. Mencken
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"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them." »H. G. Wells, Preface of "The Complete Science-Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells"
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"It is the character of a simpleton to be a bore. A man of sense sees at once whether he is welcome or tiresome; he knows to withdraw the moment that precedes that in which he would be in the least in the way." »La Bruy?re
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"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience." »John Updike
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"Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise." »Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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"A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours." »Laurence J. Peter
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"The shades of night were falling fast,As though an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,A banner with the strange device,ExcelsiorHis brow was sad his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath,And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior" »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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