Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 210
“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 210.
Context: For many years I believed that I remembered helping my grandfather drink his whisky toddy when I was six weeks old, but I do not tell about that any more, now; I am grown old, and my memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.
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