"This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed……" — Francis Bacon Sr

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• On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text… — Robert Bellarmine
• Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms… — Noah Lukeman
• Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere… — F. H. Bradley
• Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain. — James Geary
• Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. — Anatole Broyard
• The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find… — F. H. Bradley
• The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the… — Samuel Johnson
• 'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'. — George Eliot
• Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. — William Rounseville Alger
• The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. — Elias Canetti
• Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have… — Charles Simmons
• The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite… — Andre Gide

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