(I admit, also, that a strain of linguistic megalomania runs through many Polish speakers, one best summed up by the novelist Joseph Conrad, who, when asked why he didn’t write in his native language, replied: “I value too much our beautiful Polish literature to introduce into it my worthless twaddle. But for Englishmen my capacities are just sufficient.”)
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aph·o·rism
/ˈafəˌrizəm/
noun
- a pithy observation that contains a general truth, such as, “if it ain't broke, don't fix it.”.
synonyms: saying, maxim, axiom, adage, epigram, dictum, gnome, proverb, saw, tag; rareapophthegm"she was a fount of Orwellian aphorisms"- a concise statement of a scientific principle, typically by an ancient classical author.