A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.
I'm never satisfied unless I get the last word.
I love 'Maxim,' actually. It's very cool.
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots, and so on. I'd much rather listen always.
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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