I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them…

Mark Twain
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. ✨ Attributed in Reader's Digest, Apr. 1934. A similar remark, attributed to an anonymous octogenarian, appears in the Washington Post, 11 Sept. 1910. See Jefferson 42
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. ✨ Attributed in Reader's Digest, Apr. 1934. A similar remark, attributed to an anonymous octogenarian, appears in the Washington Post, 11 Sept. 1910. See Jefferson 42

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