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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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Guardino has given us a really accomplished work, deeply researched, nicely written, with a mature authorial voice and a text scattered with pithy, almost aphoristically memorable pronouncements.
The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850 by Van Young, Eric / Journal of Social History
Similarly, when Dona Mirabal grudgingly agrees to host a dinner for a local Trujillisto in exchange for the release of one of her grandsons from prison, Patria aphoristically notes the revenge her mother may take: "she was resigned to feeding Judas at her table.
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Characters speak archly and aphoristically, and while we are given to understand that these students are "gifted" (although Konigsburg's good sense and wit would never allow her to use such a word without irony) and therefore quirky, they sound too much alike.
The View from Saturday by Sutton, Roger / The Horn Book Magazine
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