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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.
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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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When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was.
By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years....
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have got so much more of it.
-- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or no
but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened....
A man gets on a train with his little boy, and gives the conductor only one ticket.
How old's your kid?" the conductor says, and the father says "He's four years old....
Everthing is farther away than it used to be. It is even twice as far to the corner and they have added a hill.
I have given up running for the bus; it leaves earlier than it used to....
How many musicians it takes to screw in a light bulb?
Five. One to screw in the light bulb and four to stand around and say, "Man, if I'd had his studio time, I could have done that....