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He coined the maxim "no ideas but in things".
Taylor Swift has also denied associating with it in the past, but changed her stance earlier this year (in an interview with Maxim, no less).
You might take comfort in the sardonic maxim "No good deed goes unpunished" (or, incidentally, in the case of celebrity charity work, "unpublished").
When the reform White Paper was published in January, Andrew Lansley pledged changes to the NHS would revolve around the maxim: "no decision about me, without me".
In his farewell address, President George Washington said: "I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy".
Mr. Cooper then recycled a line he has used to dismiss Stuff's sister publication, Maxim: "No wonder the people who read Stuff move their lips when they read".
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It's the media version of the old corporate maxim: no-one ever got fired for saying no.
TO do business in a capitalist system is to subscribe to the maxim of no pain, no gain.
The maxim of "no pain, no gain" really doesn't apply here.[69].[69]
But it proved the maxim that no good deed goes unpunished.
"We have listened to the wisdom in an old Russian maxim Davorey no provorey -- Trust, but verify".
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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