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

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WISDOM

We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.
- Letter to Orion Clemens, 21 February 1868

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.
- Mark Twain's Notebook

It is wiser to find out than suppose.
- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927

Behold the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" -- which is but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention;" but the wise man saith, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and --WATCH THAT BASKET."
- Pudd'nHead Wilson's Calender

Twain from London News
Photo of Twain from the
LONDON NEWS from the
Dave Thomson collection

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