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“When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- eb62953e766d6a10492eee3f5cab2623fd448c21800378f7a661b9dca8a0b6a3
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