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Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. - Abd-el-Kader (Kadir) An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience. - Francis H. Bradley Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms, and the greatest, and best of men is but an aphorism. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism. - Paul Eldridge I fancy mankind may come in time to write all aphoristically, except in narration; grow weary of preparation and connection and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. - Karl Kraus If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy. - Jeremy Taylor
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