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Bert Leston Taylor
American humorist and journalist
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A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
—Bert Leston Taylor, American humorist and journalist, The So-Called Human Race, 1922

Posted on June 7, 1999 at 10:10 AM

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