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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.   Twain, Mark

Source: Attributed to MARK TWAIN .The Readers Digest, September 1939, p. 22. Unverified.This has been widely reprinted and attributed to Twain, but has never been found in his works, though various Twain groups and the Twain Papers staff have searched for it. · This quote is about uncategorised · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.


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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular American humorist, novelist, writer and lecturer.

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