self-alarmist

Updated: September 19, 2025

I did not get frightened I trust I am not a self-alarmist but I did get worried. I made up my mind that I would not wait, as those who approach middle age so often do, for the medical examiner of an insurance company to scare me into sudden conniption fits.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - One Third Off