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.
~~Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi", Atlantic Monthly (1874)
Taken from: A Book of Ages by Eric Hanson
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