Worry: Interest we pay on trouble before it is due.

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Source, in full

Although this appears in Pollard's Connotary in 1932, the aphorism was already in general circulation decades earlier, e.g., it features in an advertisement in The Grape Belt, 2 October 1906, p. 5. It is also widely misattributed to Dean Inge.

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Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: John Garland Pollard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.