When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for thisquoteinvestigator.com/2010/10/10/twain-father (Thanks, Garson O’Toole!)
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