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For a happy marriage, the only counseling couples need is an occasional fear that each other has died.
A common enemy makes former enemies friends.
Parents who boast of their child's developmental progress mistake a general miracle for a particular miracle.
Success, by way of ambition, leads to failure.
Traveling is an experience rather than an avenue to experience.
A museum's famous paintings glow with oil pigments from the restorer's, not the artist's, brush.
Research, before it yields solutions, multiplies problems.
A traveler packs too heavy if he takes his body with him.
Once, we were isolated from each other by lack of speech. Now, by excess.
Does a president toast his ego that he was elected, or despair that polls show half the nation hates him?
A secular and a religious society are equally profane, for a secular society banishes the sacred, while a religious society defiles it with the human.
Comedy is the most unforgiving genre. Every comedic utterance that is not a triumph is a failure.
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open quote Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism... inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own. close quote

-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism

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