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		lolinder on Aug 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation This was first attributed to Mark Twain in a Singapore newspaper 13 years after his death, so was probably not actually said by him. It looks like it's just one of those things people say: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/04/never-happened/

solarmist on Aug 21, 2023 [–]

Good quote none the less and from what I know of Mark Twain, he wouldn’t have minded being attributed that.

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