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- noun Plural form of
aphorism .
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Examples
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Ecclesiastes. (6 pages) The work consists of personal or autobiographic matter, at times expressed in aphorisms and maxims illuminated in terse paragraphs with reflections on the meaning of life and the best way of life.
1-line descriptions of the 73 books of the Bible (extracted from Wikipedia) Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Here, the animal aspect is downplayed to insignificance, despite aphorisms from a fable scattered through the text; the punchline of this, annoyingly, doesn't come at the conclusion as a punchline should, and the actual concluding moral is moralistic.
Archive 2010-01-01 Lou Anders 2010
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The problem with aphorisms is that it takes considerable background to understand them, of course.
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Here, the animal aspect is downplayed to insignificance, despite aphorisms from a fable scattered through the text; the punchline of this, annoyingly, doesn't come at the conclusion as a punchline should, and the actual concluding moral is moralistic.
The Cosmic Balance (i.e. my ego) is Maintained!! Lou Anders 2010
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Ecclesiastes. (6 pages) The work consists of personal or autobiographic matter, at times expressed in aphorisms and maxims illuminated in terse paragraphs with reflections on the meaning of life and the best way of life.
Archive 2009-04-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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He interspersed his conversation with Bedouin aphorisms and turns of phrase.
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He interspersed his conversation with Bedouin aphorisms and turns of phrase.
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He already showed the power, in which he was probably unequalled, of coining aphorisms out of commonplace.
Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Leslie Stephen 1868
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Simpson may have been a minor genius at coining aphorisms.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Luke Leitch 2011
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Simpson may have been a minor genius at coining aphorisms.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Luke Leitch 2011
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