The Devil's Dictionary: Aphorism
Updated May 14, 2020 |
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APHORISM
-n.
Predigested wisdom.
The flabby wine-skin of his brain
Yields to some pathologic strain,
And voids from its unstored abysm
The driblet of an aphorism.
Yields to some pathologic strain,
And voids from its unstored abysm
The driblet of an aphorism.
-"The Mad Philosopher," 1697
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