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Half an inch taller than Kerry, she fully merited the compliment designed by that trite apothegm, "a fine woman."
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And he quoted with approval the infamous apothegm of Louis the Eleventh: "Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare."
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The trouble with Riderhood's apothegm is that it supplies an endless excuse for not doing it.
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"Les femmes se suivent et se ressemblent toujours," said I, parodying a well-known apothegm.
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This legend reads like a moral apothegm on the increasing value of life as it passes away.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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