“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.”

— Wilson Mizner

Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
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