Your #Aphorism of the Day: persuasive reasons…

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others. Blaise Pascal Welcome to Zena’s aphorism month! Read more about why I’m celebrating aphorisms (as well as five facts you really should know about aphorisms): here.

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Your #Aphorism of the Day: writers should strive…

I will like and praise some things in a young writer which yet, if he continue in, I cannot but justly hate him for. Ben Jonson Welcome to Zena’s aphorism month! Read more about why I’m celebrating aphorisms (as well as five facts you really should know about aphorisms): here.

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Your #Aphorism of the Day: how we rate authors…

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best. Dr Samuel Johnson Welcome to Zena’s aphorism month! Read more about why I’m celebrating aphorisms (as well as five facts you really should know about…

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