Epigram
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...their epigrams include Yeats, Pound, Roy Campbell, and Ogden Nash. One of the most brilliant of prose epigrammatists was Oscar Wilde. His works are studded with epigrams, such as "I can resist everything except temptation...