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Mark Twain

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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Mark Twain is saying that although he has experienced many worries throughout his life, the majority of those fears were imagined and never actually occurred. This highlights how people often spend a lot of energy stressing over problems that don’t end up happening.

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