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

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WISDOM

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 Calendar"

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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, Merle Johnson (1927)

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