Mark Twain — "I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never hap…"
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
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About Mark Twain (1835-1910)
American humorist and inventor of the American vernacular novel; author of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Closely associated with William Dean Howells (his close friend, editor, and 'Dean of American Letters') and Bret Harte (early collaborator on Western frontier humor). For an intellectual contrast, see Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement — Twain's Christian Science (1907) is a 200-page sustained polemic against Eddy's claims of supernatural healing — the longest sustained attack of his career.
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Widely attributed. While the exact source in his published works is sometimes debated, it aligns with his philosophical outlook. Some attribute it to his later essays or personal reflections.
Date: Late 19th - early 20th century (approximate)
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