Quotes with apothegms

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• Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.

  William R. Alger
  American writer (1822 - 1905)
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• There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.

  Brander Matthews
   
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Subjects in these quotes:

• quintessential
• sophisticated
• pyrotechnics
• feelings
• strained
• epigrams

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