Quote by Robert Brault
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. – Robert Brault

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It is a sad lament — the happiness you might have found if you had taken the path that still lies right there in front of you. – Robert Brault

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An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing. – Robert Brault

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The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser — in case you thought optimism was dead. – Robert Brault

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In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise. – William Irwin Thompson

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Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition…. [I]f you should happen to write an insipid poem… send it to me, and my fiat shall crown you with immortality. – Frances Brooke, Lady Julia Mandeville , 1763

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Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it… – George Santayana, “Chapter VIII: Prerational Morality,” The Life of Reason: Volu

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The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen. – Lemony Snicket, The Vile Village, 2001

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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can. – Thomas Carlyle

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. – Pope Paul VI

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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. – Max Lerner

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