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I can get myself awfully worked up, just as a fine sentence or paragraph can send me into shivery rapture. – Steve Almond, “Night of the Living Freak,” Candyfreak: A Journey through the Cho

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Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram. – Joseph Farrell, “About Conversation,” The Lectures of a Certain Professor, 1877

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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present. – Tryon Edwards

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Proverbs bear age and he who should do well may view himself in them as in a looking-glass. – Italian Proverb

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One man’s wit, and all men’s wisdom. – John Russell, definition of a proverb

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