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Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The ap

Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers. – W. H. Auden

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The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. – Elias Canetti

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Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors “quotographers,” the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

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A proverb is an ornament to language. – Persian Proverb

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Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable. – Joseph Epstein, “Quotatious,” A Line Out for a Walk: Familiar Essays, 1991

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Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. – Elizabeth Ashley

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As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. Id get ready by myself. Id set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up. – Janet Jackson

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Im in politics. Im in government, so nothing surprises me. – Andrew Cuomo

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