Avalon: A Trove of Aphorisms

By Louis Everstine

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 11, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796014266

Louis Everstine

Dr. Everstine was educated at Kenyon College, the New School for Social Research, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California, Berkeley. His doctorate is in Psychology. He was a graduate student of Philosophy at Oxford University (Linacre College) and Cambridge University (Fitzwilliam College). He is the author of five textbooks in Psychology, and wrote The Meaning of Life (2000) and Life Is Relationship (2007). He is a Life Member of the American Psychological Association, a Fellow of the Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, and a member of the Oxford and Cambridge Club, London.

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PREFACE

Aphorisms, although ageless currency, flowered in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, nourished by such masters as LaRochefoucald, Pascal, and Samuel Johnson, and rescued by Thurber and Wilde and Shaw. Of course, Shakespeare bequeathed one on every page, e.g., How sharper than a serpent’s tooth, to have a thankless child.

Cousins of the aphorism are the adage, proverb, haiku, bons mots, epigram, old chestnut, quip, squib, fortune cookie, and OED’s pithy maxims. Or,