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Let us not care too much for what happens: Let us not leave our peace of mind at the mercy of events.

Let us not care too much for what happens: Let us not leave our peace of mind at the mercy of events.

In print by 1911 AD · modern

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Attribution & collection notes
Author or tradition
Charles G. Ames
Attribution: attributed
Country attributed
Not established
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Historical period
In print by 1911 AD · modern
In print by 1911: recorded in The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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Recorded source
The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)

Complete signed selection 51; printed byline: Charles G. Ames; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907

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