Both Uses of
maxim
in
The Horse and His Boy
- I have had maxims and verses flung at me all day and I can endure them no more.†
Chpt 8 *
- For the gods have withheld from the barbarians the light of discretion, as that their poetry is not, like ours, full of choice apophthegms and useful maxims, but is all of love and war.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(maxim) a short saying that expresses a general truth or principle