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• When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
  But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

  ?UnattributedOften credited to Mark Twain

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• And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

  ?UnattributedOften credited to Abraham Lincoln

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• George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

  Mark Twain1835–1910“Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington”, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867), ed. John Paul

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

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