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[This is not a quote, but a meta discussion.]
I find it curious that the quotes posted here have higher votes on average than the usual discussion comments, and it makes me think that I have a below-average appreciation for quotations. Why do people value them, I wonder?
"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.