“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.”
As quoted in The Power of Choice (2007) by Joyce Guccione, p. 49
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