"The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle."

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There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.

— Brander Matthews