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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

"The Utility and the futility of Aphorism". Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art and Politics, Volume 11, p. 180, 1863.

God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.

William Rounseville Alger (1874). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.123