How to Make People Shun You and Even Despise You

Lincoln talked to his old neighbor for hours about the advisability of issuing a proclamation freeing the slaves. If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back, here's the recipe. Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. Burst right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence. People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves.