"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due."
— Worry

January 1, 1970

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Variously attributed to Dean Inge and John Garland Pollard in the 1930s, this aphorism was already in general circulation decades earlier, e.g., it features in an advertisement in The Grape Belt, 2 October 1906, p. 5.