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The best talker is liable to become the most formidable of bores. It is a peculiarity of the bore that he is the last person to find himself out. Many a terebrant I have known who, in that capacity, to borrow a line from Coleridge, "Was great, nor knew how great he was." A line, by the way, which, as I have remarked, has in it a germ like that famous "He builded better than he knew" of Emerson.
The best talker is liable to become the most formidable of bores. It is a peculiarity of the bore that he is the last person to find himself out. Many a terebrant I have known who, in that capacity, to borrow a line from Coleridge, "Was great, nor knew how great he was." A line, by the way, which, as I have remarked, has in it a germ like that famous "He builded better than he knew" of Emerson.
He spaded and mulched and pruned it, and guarded it in the winter from rodent rabbits and in summer from terebrant grubs. It was not ungrateful. It grew a noble tree, producing a rich and luscious fruit, with a deep scarlet satin coat, and a flesh tinged as delicately as a pink seashell.
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