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What is a bore? Maxwell definition: a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. How do you spot one? Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.

— Elsa Maxwell How to Do It (1957)

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Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church, or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

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Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

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