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What is a maxim?

What is a maxim? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (now rare) A self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule.
  2. A precept; a succinct statement or observation of a rule of conduct or moral teaching.
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But the maxim that you can fall in love at any age could hardly be more true than for James Foster and Barbara Scott.
This maxim was perhaps most apparent in May when the company announced it was going public.
We could get but one bridle here, which, according to the maxim detur digniori, was appropriated to Dr. Johnson's sheltie.
I have, however, a maxim of Thoreau which I furbish up for just such occasions.
Willan, with all his erudition, was a dermatologist, and acted on the maxim that there is nothing like leather.
My standpoint, moreover, requires me to admit the validity of the hypothesis of Descent as an heuristic maxim of natural science.

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