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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree. Video

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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
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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.
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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
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An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
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