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The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

Charles Dickens
Men, Listening, Doe
charles dickens (1874). “all the year round”, p.179

The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.

Charles Dickens
Arrows, Flying, Listening
charles dickens (1874). “all the year round”, p.179

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

Charles Dickens
Men, Listening, Wish
charles dickens (1874). “all the year round”, p.181

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

Charles Dickens
Water, Listening, May

I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.

Charles Dickens
Echoes, Listening, Answers

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