“When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but I am getting old, and soon I shall remember only the latter.”

Mark Twain - Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name, Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, publisher, and lecturer.

Note: This quote was included on a multi-volume biography of Mark Twain which was published by his friend Albert Bigelow Paine in 1912.