Quotation by Bert Leston Taylor

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The So-Called Human Race (1922)

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A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

Bert Leston Taylor

Bert Leston Taylor (1866–1921), U.S. humorist, newspaper columnist. The So-Called Human Race, p. 163 (1922).

The line may have been the inspiration for Arthur Guiterman's couplet "Of Tact", in A Poet's Proverbs (1924): "Don't tell your friends about your indigestion: 'How are you!' is a greeting, not a question."

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