“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
“When E. F. Hollings talks, nobody listens.”
Alluding to the E. F. Hutton commercial of the 1980s, in reference to his unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1984. A sharp tongue can still draw victim's blood, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Connelley, Joel, February 3, 1986, December 8, 2009 http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1986/8601030327.asp,
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Ernest Hollings 3
politician from the United States 1922–2019Related quotes
Attributed in George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire.
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“Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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"People".
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