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apothegm

noun as in adage

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The fact that it was the manipulative monster Chairman Mao who said, “All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience,” does not make the apothegm less true.

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These go by other names too: maxim, apothegm, dictum, epigram, gnome, and sentence.

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One of my father’s favorite apothegms was that “you can’t argue with success.”

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His most famous apothegm—“What you see is what you see”—is no help, if seeing is supposed to imply comprehending.

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On Saturday, Broner apologized for his language, invoking an apothegm of his own invention.

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