the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurem…

Mark Twain
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the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it. ✨ Mark Twain (2010). Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review, p.30, Univ of Wisconsin Press
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the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it. ✨ Mark Twain (2010). Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review, p.30, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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