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    Avalon: A Trove of Aphorisms
    Avalon: A Trove of Aphorisms
    Avalon: A Trove of Aphorisms
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    Avalon: A Trove of Aphorisms

    By Louis Everstine

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateOct 11, 2019
    ISBN9781796014266
    Avalon: A Trove of Aphorisms
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    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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      Avalon - Louis Everstine

      Copyright © 2019 by Louis Everstine.

      Library of Congress Control Number:     2019901353

      ISBN:                       Hardcover                        978-1-7960-1428-0

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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,

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