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Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge. - Thomas Hood

Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge. – Thomas Hood

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But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind? – Thomas Hood

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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. – Thomas Hood

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All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Nor must you find fault with me if I often give you what I have borrowed from my various reading, in the very words of the authors themselves. – Macrobius, translated from Latin

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Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind. – Isaac D’Israeli

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You complain, Velox, that the epigrams which I write are long. You yourself write nothing; your attempts are shorter. – Marcus Valerius Martialis, translated from Latin

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