Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes
I Have Often Remarked In The United States That It Is Not Easy To Make A Man Understand That His Presence May Be Dispensed With; Hints Will Not Always Suffice To Shake Him Off. I Contradict An American At Every Word He Says, To Show Him That His Conversation Bores Me; He Instantly Labors With Fresh Pertinacity To Convince Me; I Preserve A Dogged Silence, And He Thinks I Am Meditating Deeply On The Truths Which He Is Uttering; At Last I Rush From His Company, And He Supposes That Some Urgent Business Hurries Me Elsewhere. This Man Will Never Understand That He Wearies Me To Extinction Unless I Tell Him So: And The Only Way To Get Rid Of Him Is To Make Him My Enemy For Life.
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