Aphorisms
- ‘It is better to put a fence at the top of a cliff than to station an ambulance at the bottom’—(attributed) reference to infant mortality prevention
- 'I am King of Seacliff, and I do not like that colour' (attributed) complaint to a railway worker painting the Seacliff station (the worker's reply, sadly, is not recorded)
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“In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are addressed, great and lofty.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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