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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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• Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

  Jack Benny1894–1974Often credited to Mark Twain

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