Definition of "aphorist" [aph•o•rist]

• A person who writes or recites aphorisms. (noun)

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• "Devotees of popular history will have met some of these stories in the work of Liza Picard, Witold Rybczynski, Daniel Boorstin and others, but it's hard to imagine a better synthesizer than Bryson, or a pithier aphorist."
• "I toyed with being an aphorist, but the mode can get a bit tiresome."
• "We can do no better than conclude with the observation of the great aphorist Samuel Johnson:"