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What is an aphorism?

What is an aphorism? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An original, laconic phrase conveying some principle or concept of thought, often one considered pithy.
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We all know the old aphorism that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
Politics is the art of the possible, as the old aphorism puts it, and progress is usually incremental.
This pithy aphorism graphically tells us the sad state of affairs on the roads of India.
Each aphorism or set of aphorisms, must be examined as a thought experiment.
My single aphorism, derived from anthropologist Alfred Gell, is that pattern, decoration, ornament, attaches people to things.
Some 20 years later, in a famous aphorism Omnis cellula e cellula, Rudolf Virchow annunciated that all cells arise only from pre-existing cells.

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