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What is an apothegm?

What is an apothegm? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim.
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With this apothegm from the storehouse of her lately acquired wisdom, she passed to the next paragraph.
That a style of this kind should be rich in apothegm is not surprising.
In Venice, 1975: After our long day's enchanting rest, yesterday we went down and found Gore — big, complacent, pompous, assured that his every platitude is an apothegm, a witty wisdom.
The 84-year-old unburdens himself of this apothegm with the foxy charm of the late French actor Charles Boyer.
There was the resplendent 'Judgment in Heaven,' with the trenchant Elizabethan apothegm of its epilogue.
I remembered this apothegm of Jane's, which sounded well, and fitted in nicely just here.

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