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noun
a maxim; a pithy saying; a succinct remark
1846The Old ManseIt has been an apothegm these five thousand years, that toil sweetens the bread it earns.1877The Essays of MontaigneHad any one formerly brought me to Erasmus, I should hardly have believed but that all was adage and apothegm he spoke to his man or his hostess.1905The House of MirthIf you would forgive your enemy, says the Malay proverb, first inflict a hurt on him; and Lily was experiencing the truth of the apothegm.1922Jurgen Besides, a kiss, wherever deposited, as Jurgen pointed out, is, when you think of it, but a ceremonial, of no intrinsic wrongfulness. The girl demurring against this apothegm—as custom again exacted—was, still in common fairness, convinced of her error. So now, says Jurgen presently, you see for yourself. Labels: Edith Wharton, James Branch Cabell, Michel de Montaigne, Nathaniel Hawthorne
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