Quotation by Mark Twain

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 [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. "Old Times on the Mississippi," Atlantic Monthly (1874).
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