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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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Thompson, like a lot of people in the sixties and seventies, interpreted Dylan's famous apothegm to mean that in order to be honest you must live outside the law.
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.
At my request, one young Chinese woman wrote the apothegm with only a moment's hesitation.
With this apothegm from the storehouse of her lately acquired wisdom, she passed to the next paragraph.
An apothegm is a terse statement of what is plain or easily proved.

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