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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

  • Youth

• The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.

  Ring Lardner1885–1933

• Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on-a-rope.

  Bill Cosbyborn 1937

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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