“Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.”

—  Earl Warren

As quoted in Do It : Let's Get Off Our Buts (1992) by Peter John Roger McWilliams
Paraphrased variant: Everything that I did in life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
As quoted in Compact Fruit Tree (2002) Vol. 35-38, by International Dwarf Fruit Tree Association, p. 32
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