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"An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself."
- Minna Antrim
"Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink."
- Francis H. Bradley
"Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm."
- Lord Chesterfield
"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
"An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half."
- Karl Kraus
"An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall."
- Oscar Levant
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