“A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground.”
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714–1794) English lawyer, judge and Whig politician
Wilkes v. Wood (1763), Lofft. 12.
“An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.”
Ein Aphorismus ist der letzte Ring einer langen Gedankenkette.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 19.
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