To the uninitiated, the words abstinence and divestment may connote a sense of deprivation or sacrifice. When applied to a ...

In his justly celebrated Patrick Melrose novels (1992–2012), the glittering, aphoristic wintriness that St Aubyn shares with his protagonist – for the most part, his authorial stand-in – increasingly ...

With Vianne, Joanne Harris rewinds six years past the events of her bestseller. It’s deft, if you can dodge the cloying aphoristic wisdom ...

Snook embodies the fretful Basil, too, as well as the aphoristic aesthete Lord Henry Wotton, who drips with bon mots and malignant ideas. They are inversions of each other: Basil’s way of making ...

She even sorts her building’s collective recycling bins. In the classroom, when she’s not cleaning it, she rebels against the curriculum and authority of any kind, perhaps, we are constantly reminded ...

The Association Aphoristic Representation of Macedonia (RAM) has announced the best creations in the open competition with the theme "Politicomania". This competition was announced within the ...

Often, position and wealth are conditions that play a negative role in some people, because they have weak faith and they strip them of high human virtues and become conceited. Show people that you ...

Quote Investigator speculated that the misattribution may have come about due to confusion with a similar — but much wordier and less aphoristic — sentiment expressed in a 1918 pamphlet titled ...

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