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"An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself."

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"Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink."

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"Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm."

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"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism."

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"An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half."

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"An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall."

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"He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable."

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"Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams."

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"They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart."

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"There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion."

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