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AAphorisms for the Uncommon Reader was released by Logica Books and is available at Amazon, B&N, Book Depository, and local bookstores. It provides a review of this briefest and broadest form of the literary arts, followed by 400 original, thought-provoking, and humorous insights, for example: The toucan sees nothing unusual in the mirror. We make lifelong friends while we are young and indiscriminate. Capitalism: n. An ingenious system for creating work for workers, wealth for the wealthy, and poverty for the poor. You can learn what you have to say only by listening when you speak. Perceptions: n. pl. Images from our past distorted to accommodate the objects currently before us. Happiness isn't something that happens to us. It's something we do. We usually understand what we heard, even when we don't understand what was said. Adulthood: n. The developmental stage in which we abandon our selves to become our lives. Militia: n. An armed mob organized by shirt color-historically black or brown.

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This 155-page volume begins with an introduction to aphorisms and aphorists, and concludes with a collection of 400 of William Melvin Gardner's original aphorisms. The book includes 24 illustrations and makes an ideal gift for your witty friends. Aphorisms can be observations, instructions, or definitions distinguished by brevity, wit, insight, sweeping implication, and often include a twist.They have been described as the broadest and briefest form of the literary arts.

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William Melvin Gardner was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1940 and grew up on his family's farm on Lassiter Mountain. He served in the USAF and then earned a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. He taught graduate and undergraduate psychology courses at Jacksonville State University and conducted research in comparative psychology, learning, sensory disorders, and academic cheating. After retiring, he wrote essays on automotive history and compiled an Encyclopedia of eight-cylinder engine. He is best known for his book Handling Truth: Navigating the Riptides of Rhetoric, Religion, Reason, and Research (2012). He lives with his wife, mystery novelist G. P. Gardner, in a small town on Mobile Bay.

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