If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
There is no bore like a clever bore.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
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