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  • They soon progressed beyond maxims to applied practice.  (source)
  • Nations ignore rules and maxims that, in their very nature, run counter to the necessities of society.  (source)
  • After much thought Snowball declared that the Seven Commandments could in effect be reduced to a single maxim, namely: 'Four legs good, two legs bad.'  (source)
    maxim = a short saying that expresses a general truth or principle
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  • A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.†  (source)
  • Maxims of Baloo  (source)
    Maxims = short sayings that express general truths or principles
  • I'll take tables five and six; Maxim can take tables seven and eight.†  (source)
  • My toast is one of those maxims so dear to our hearts: 'Business makes progress!†  (source)
  • Stella was a headstrong woman with bohemian tastes and driving artistic ambitions, for both herself and her kin; she self-published a literary journal, theRuess Quartette, the cover of which was emblazoned with the family maxim: "Glorify the hour."†  (source)
  • Courageous, worthy and capable men are elected to public office and hold posts of gainful employment in society; peace and trust among all men are the maxims of living.†  (source)
  • "It's only numbers, cadet," Hauptmann says, a favorite maxim.†  (source)
  • They are to be drawn in by degrees, until they cannot retreat....we are breaking through all those sacred maxims of our forefathers, and giving the alarm to every wise man on the continent of America, that all his rights depend on the will of men whose corruptions are notorious, who regard him as an enemy, and who have no interest in his prosperity.†  (source)
  • In fact, he had always been a living example of the maxim, "Clean as you go."†  (source)
  • I had a picture of Mrs. Willard, with her heather-mixture tweeds and her sensible shoes and her wise, maternal maxims.†  (source)
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