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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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APHORISMS

I made half a dozen aphorisms (in the rough) last night. But in the rough an aphorism is valueless; to reduce it to verbal pemmican is the difficult thing.
- letter to Olivia Clemens, 11-13 February 1894

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