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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. — Voltaire

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

In the original French

Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire.

Voltaire
1738
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1738
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Voltaire
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Voltaire. "Sixieme Discours: Sur la Nature de l'Homme [Sixth Discourse: On the Nature of Man]." Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme [Seven Discourses on Man]. 1738, no. 6.

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