It is the peculiarity of the bore that he is the last person to find himself out.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1890-03), “Over the Teacups,” No. 4, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 65
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Collected in Over the Teacups, ch. 4 (1891).

 
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