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

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THEORY

Dwig illustration
Illustration by "Dwig" from the
Dave Thomson collection

...the trouble about arguments is, they ain't nothing but theories, after all, and theories don't prove nothing, they only give you a place to rest on, a spell, when you are tuckered out butting around and around trying to find out something there ain't no way to find out...There's another trouble about theories: there's always a hole in them somewheres, sure, if you look close enough.
- Tom Sawyer Abroad

How empty is theory in the presence of fact.
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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