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This anthology demonstrates to the full just how rewarding an art form the aphorism can be, and just how brilliantly the aphorist can illuminate the hidden truth, or lay bare the ironies of existence. Specific sections including 'Religion', 'Money & Rank', 'Men, Women, Marriage' and 'Politics', cover the whole range of aphoristic literature. This book brings together the most diverse figures-the classic aphorists, like La Rochefoucauld; the philosophers, from the Greeks to Samuel Johnson to Virginia Woolf-as well as statesmen, scientists, boulevardiers, Olympians, and gadflies. John Gross draws on their wisdom and wit to produce an anthology that will be referred to time and time again.
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When I was a child, I used to rummage among my father's library. Many of the books didn't interest me in the slightest for he loved sports, interior decorating, fiction, cookery: All topics which to this day bore me senseless. But then of all the books he had was one of Aphorisms and Maxims. I don't know its title to this day but I can vividly remember loving that book more than any other in his collection. The Oxford Book Of Aphorisms is just such a book. A book of wisdom condensed into a multitude of pithy sentences. If you want to learn about the meaning of life and how to live then you could do a lot worse than spend some time reading this very book. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to know what life is all about. For the wisdom contained in this book is certainly timeless, ageless and most indispensable.
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This book contains a remarkably rich collection of aphorisms. In the chapter on aphorisms, we find: 'A perfectly healthy sentence is extremely rare'. Indeed, this is a rare book.
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