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Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you wit

Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. – Gian Vincenzo Gravina

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A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. – Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race

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We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore. – Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

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Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. – William Dean Howells

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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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