I am grown old and my memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.
ATTRIBUTION:
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. Mark Twain’s Autobiography, p. 96, ed. Albert B. Paine, Harper & Brothers (1924).
