apophthegm
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The soul of Sir Thomas Gourlay writhed within him like a wounded serpent, at the calm but noble truth contained in this apophthegm.
From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
The talk went on to patriotism, and Johnson laid down an apophthegm, at "which many will start," many people, in fact, having little sense of humour.
From Samuel Johnson by Sir Leslie Stephen
That this apophthegm of Macintosh should have been quoted and requoted as it has, shows how profound has been the ignorance of social science.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
I was still pondering over this apophthegm, when Crofton aroused me by pushing across the table a great heap of gold.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever
The perverseness of mankind makes it often mischievous 37in men of eminence to give way to merriment; the idle and the illiterate will long shelter themselves under this foolish apophthegm.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
