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All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.

A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.