| To a man all things are possible but one--he
cannot have a hole in the seat of his breeches and keep his fingers out
of it. A man does seem to feel more distress and more persistent and distracting
solicitude about such a thing than he could about a sick child that was
threatening to grow worse every time he took his attention away from it. - Letter to William D. Howells, 27 June 1878 |
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| ...it has never been my way to bother much
about things which you can't cure. - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
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