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The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.

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Herbert Newton Casson
Age: 81 †
Born: 1869
Born: September 23
Died: 1951
Died: September 4
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