Mark Twain's Father
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 the old man had learned in seven years.
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 the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
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This could not possibly be a Mark Twain quote considering that he was born in 1835, and his father died in 1847, when Mark was only twelve years old.
Posted by: Will | February 21, 2008 03:09 AM