We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
- Source
- Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1871 English edition)
Main maxims, complete printed maxim 242; J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell translation; Simpson Low, Son, and Marston,188FleetStreet,1871 (printed imprint spelling retained)
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- attributed · historical anthology
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- c. 1646 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1613–1680); not quotation composition date; not composition date. - Rights & edition
- Public domain (United States)
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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