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  • Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.

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  • Anatole Broyard Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • John Morley Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Francis H. Bradley 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
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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