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posted by Staff, on 25 february 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Poetry)

Poets, although not insensible how much our language was already over-stocked with monosyllables, yet, to save time and pains, introduced that barbarous custom of abbreviating words to fit them to the measure of their verses.

Jonathan Swift

posted by Staff, on 25 february 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Religion)

Several clergymen, otherwise little fond of obscure terms, are in their sermons very liberal of all those which they find in ecclesiastical writers, as if it were our duty to understand them.

Jonathan Swift

posted by Staff, on 24 february 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Nature Phrases)

In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that one must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

posted by Staff, on 24 february 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Men & Women, Religion)

Jesus slowly turned to look at her and said: I have never been with a woman. Mary held his hands, This is how everyone has to begin, men who have never known a woman, women who have never known a man, until the day comes for the one who knows to teach the one who does not.

Jos� Saramago

posted by Staff, on 23 february 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)

Drink! The flies have not spoilt my vintage; the vines were dry before they came.

Anatole France

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