[dragonwriter]

It literally misses any explanation of the only thing that distinguishes the epigram from the proverb it refers to. While identifying, and reproducing, with simple contextual substitutions, and explanation of the proverb referenced is not a small feat compared to where this kind of technology was a few years ago, its pretty darned far from either (1) actually explaining the epigram, or (2) making the argument you try to make based on explaining the epigram.

[pmoriarty]

What is it missing? The explanation seems fine to me.

Anyway, I've run dozens of epigrams through it, almost none of which are based on any known proverbs, and it did great on almost all of them.

Even if you weren't impressed by this one, I encourage you to check out some of its other explanations at the link above.