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aphorism

Short, sharp, witty saying, usually making a general observation. ‘Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes’ is one of many aphorisms by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The term derives from the Aphorisms ascribed to Greek writer Hippocrates. An aphorism which has become universally accepted is a proverb.



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No doubt it was in further elaboration of this aphorism that the little steamboat that sailed every other day from Yellowsands to the beckoning shores of France was called "the Mayflower.
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As I have told you my own aphorism I feel I ought in fairness to record that of this aggrieved servant.
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He belonged to that natural, humorous school who took for their motto in the seventeenth century the aphorism uttered by one of their number in 1653, -- "To despise flowers is to offend God.
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