apophthegm
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Faint heart never won fair lady, he said to himself, in some answering apophthegm.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various
Later he delivered himself of the unstatesmanlike and unworthy apophthegm: "Better be united in support of a short-sighted and foolish policy than divided in support of a far-sighted and wise one."
From Ireland Since Parnell by D. D. (Daniel Desmond) Sheehan
A great statesman is responsible for an apophthegm on that aspect of the topic which always deserves to be quoted in the same breath as Dr Johnson's familiar half-truth.
From Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays by Sir Sidney Lee
The major part of the volume consists of 190 numbered sentences—each a French rendering of an apophthegm or reflection drawn from Shakespeare's plays.
From Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays by Sir Sidney Lee
The middle row, the first to be inscribed, deals with the Epicurean theory of atoms—not by apophthegm or aphorism, but with something of the fulness and technicality of a treatise.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
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