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Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket - which is but a matter of saying, Scatter your money and your attention but the wise man saith, Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET. - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.
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The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.
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Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.
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It is better to support schools than jails.
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The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.
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If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.
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Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.
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We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.
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The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print
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In love, you pay as you leave.
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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
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It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.
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...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.
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I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.
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Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.
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If I had more time, I would have written less.
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Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.
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To eat is human, to digest, divine
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