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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — Mark Twain
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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
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