apophthegm
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Accordingly a proverb, in the nineteenth century, is a commonly known and frequently cited apophthegm.
Dr. Johnson would have laboured this short apophthegm into a voluminous common-place.
From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney
But after nigh six months of palpitating negotiations with the adorable Mrs. Glamorys, the poet, in a moment of dejection, penned the prose apophthegm, 'It is of no use trying to change a changeable person.'
From Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship by Zangwill, Israel
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 Spencer, Herbert
They did not dream of the apophthegm that knowledge is power; and that we become strong by subduing nature to our will.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by Newman, John Henry
