"Would Have Taken Better Care of Myself"

[Fred Shapiro]

Can Barry or Sam or Doug or anyone else provide any pre-1966 usages of the
expression "If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have
taken better care of myself," or variants thereof?

Fred Shapiro


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