“Besides the bore condescending, who, whether good-natured or ill-natured, is a most provoking animal – there is the bore facetious, an insufferable creature, always laughing, but with whom you can never laugh. And there is another exotic variety – the vive la bagatelle bore of the ape kind – who imitate men of genius. Having early been taught that there is nothing more delightful than the unbending of a great mind, they set about continually to unbend the bow in company.”
