childofbaud comments on Rationality Quotes: October 2009 - Less Wrong
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"A proverb is much matter distilled into few words."
—R. Buckminster Fuller
"A proverb is ... few words."
It is the distillation part -- the extraordinary degree of compression of experience -- that is most important, not the "few words" part.