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Herbert Spencer

A form of selfishness occasionally displayed, and rightly condemned, is that of men who display without bounds their remarkable conversational powers. . . . One who monopolizes conversation loses more by moral reprobation than he gains by intellectual approbation.

Herbert Spencer, Principles of Ethics, Vol. 2, Part V: “Negative Beneficence” (see this page for the complete passage).

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