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The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the

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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There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it. – Richard Chenevix Trench, Proverbs and Their Lessons, 1905

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Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine. – Desiderius Erasmus

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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. – James Baldwin

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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. – Chinese Proverb

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