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It requires a sense of superiority assurance, and self-confidence, to write about bores at all, except as one of them. But since a true bore is always unconscious of his ‘borishness’, and indeed usually thinks of himself as the most companionable of men. to write as one of them is to acquit oneself of the stigma.

Bores are happy largely because they have so much to tell and they can find people to tell it to. The tragedy is they can always find their listeners. me almost first And why can they? Why can even notorious bores always be sure of an audience? The answer is the ineradicable kindness of human nature. Few men are strong enough to say “For Heaven’s sake go away. you weary me’

One of the bore’s greatest assets is his simplicity which disarms. Astute crafty men are seldombores: very busy men are seldom bores.