Maxim
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The _cantilena_, divinely graceful, to which was sung the
maxim
that seemed to her to bear so striking an application to her own situation, occupied every moment in which she was not thinking directly of Julien.
More example sentences with word maxim
The maxim, "Know thyself" has been around since the ancient Greeks.
It's an important
maxim
that the unfamiliar is not the same as the improbable, and in fact, that's why we at Cambridge University are setting up a center to study how to mitigate these existential risks.
His finest accomplishment, though, may be his maxim, casting the search for truth beyond our senses and our current understanding as the pursuit of the beauty of the as yet unknown.
So you may have heard of that old
maxim
that you can sleep when you're dead.
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