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apothegm

noun as in adage

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Half an inch taller than Kerry, she fully merited the compliment designed by that trite apothegm, "a fine woman."

And he quoted with approval the infamous apothegm of Louis the Eleventh: "Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare."

The trouble with Riderhood's apothegm is that it supplies an endless excuse for not doing it.

"Les femmes se suivent et se ressemblent toujours," said I, parodying a well-known apothegm.

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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