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Oscar Wilde was famous for his witty epigrams, such as “I can resist everything except temptation.”epigrams = a short saying that expresses an idea in a clever manner
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A famous epigram was quoted at the beginning of the book, "It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness."epigram = a well-worded, short saying that expresses an idea
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But what will the Chief do at Birmingham without the epigrams whispered to him by his brilliant secretary?† (source)
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Few of the poems extend beyond fifteen or twenty lines in length, and many are mere epigrams of four lines or even two.† (source)
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— and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man." This isn't just an epigram — life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all. (source)epigram = witty saying
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Further complicating matters, the prelate was deaf in his left ear, partial to Latin epigrams, and prone to stare at décolletage whenever he drank a glass of wine; while the Duchess Obolensky, who was particularly caustic in summer, frowned upon pithy sayings and could not abide discussions of the arts.† (source)
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Almost an epigram.† (source)
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All here — fawning, slyly plotting, "roughing it" with the Emperor ....here to watch him put an end to this affair, to make epigrams over the battles and idolize the wounded.† (source)
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The epigram was widely reported.† (source)
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Reciting Latin epigrams to business majors in a place called Paradise Valley.† (source)
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The baby was, to reverse an epigram, an unconscionable time in getting born; but when Gant finally awoke just after ten o'clock next morning, whimpering from tangled nerves, and the quivering shame of dim remembrance, he heard, as he drank the hot coffee Helen brought to him, a loud, long lungy cry above.† (source)
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A virgin audience like Colonel Scheisskopf was grist for General Peckem's mill, a stimulating opportunity to throw open his whole dazzling erudite treasure house of puns, wisecracks, slanders, homilies, anecdotes, proverbs, epigrams, apophthegms, bon mots and other pungent sayings.† (source)
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"Like her rivals," said Mr. Sillerton Jackson, with the air of producing an epigram.† (source)
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Czech towns were decorated with thousands of hand-painted posters bearing ironic texts, epigrams, poems, and cartoons of Brezhnev and his soldiers, jeered at by one and all as a circus of illiterates.† (source)
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He quoted to Philip the exquisite epigram: "They told me, Herakleitus, they told me you were dead.'† (source)
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A manipulator, an orator, a writer of bills and crafty epigrams.† (source)
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