And then I go and compound the issue by getting it backwards!

Please forgive my "quotational dyslexia,"  proving again how easy  it
is to go astray.


From "The Layman's Sermon," 1906:

     "I was born modest, but it didn't last."


From "Mark Twain Tonight," ed. Hal Holbrook:

     "I was born modest, but it wore off."


From my biography,

     "In the first place God made  idiots,..."


Humbly,

Roger Durrett
Charlotte, NC