“To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius, a vital appropriating exercise of mind, closely allied to that which first created it.”

— William R. Alger

p. 180 http://books.google.com/books?id=n6xIAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA180
"The Utility and Futility of Aphorisms," 1863

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