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Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that

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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The aphorist sees in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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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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Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer’s mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation… – Desiderius Erasmus, Adages

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They are the abridgments of wisdom. – Sumner Ellis, Hints on Preaching: A Cloud of Witnesses, 1879

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