"I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories."

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It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet used but at set times. The like may be said of society, which, if good, is a better refiner of the spirits than ordinary books.

— Frances Osborne