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The bore exists to abuse peoples' natural politeness and curiosity and will bend the ear of any unfortunate passing in a 20-foot radius of themselves with a never-ending dribble of ill-formed and incomprehensible opinion. Make no mistake about it: regardless of how `bohemian' the bore appears, he is deeply conservative and will hold many insane and mostly mutually-inconsistent views on unmarried mothers, foreign emigrants, the power of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, and the price of the pint.

Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914),

The Devil's Dictionary A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922)

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. Frank Moore Colby

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. George Saunders, last words

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. Henry Kissinger (1923 - )

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)

Every hero becomes a bore at last. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)