How to Avoid Being a Bore

We might assume that people are either interesting or boring by nature. Far from it, being boring to others is a very avoidable mistake; and it is open to all of us to learn the art of proving interesting.
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“Some of the reason why we end up being inadvertently rude to people is that they are so polite with us, a politeness which gives us precious little indication of the ways in which we may be gravely offending, inconveniencing or boring them.”


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