Word: epigrams
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Braz rambles a good bit. He often seems more interested in chewing his philosophical cud than in telling his story. He will drop everything else for an epigram. Samples: "We kill time; time buries us." "One endures with patience the pain in the other fellow's stomach." From his ghost world, he sums up his life on earth as a zero. He has one" satisfaction: "I had no progeny, I transmitted to no one the legacy of our misery." That, Braz figures, makes him a "small winner...
...Knight of the Epigram...
Luther himself was only too conscious of his excesses, and once, when asked why he was so violent, composed a salient epigram on his entire life. "A twig," he said, "can be cut with a bread knife, but an oak calls...
...almost universally believed that Lincoln coined this epigram in a speech at Clinton, 111. on Sept. 2, 1858 (usually misdated Sept. 8). While it is not printed in the text of the 12-volume Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln (1905), the editor, Francis D. Tandy, gives it a qualified certification in a footnote to the report of Lincoln's Clinton speech, and reproduces it without qualification in the anthology which accompanies that compilation...
...folklore - did several men who had heard Lincoln speak at Clinton come forward to assert that he had used these words . . . Naturally, implicit confidence cannot be placed in their statements. Moreover, several who were present at the Clinton meeting had no recollection of Lincoln's use of the epigram...