"What we call maturity is mostly fatigue." "One reads so as not to believe everything one reads." "Nothing tastes quite like the hand that feeds you." Aphorisms are often derided as trivial, yet most people rule their lives with five or six of them. This collection contains five or six hundred, some of which you wouldn't want to rule your life with.
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Everything: A Book of Aphorisms
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