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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....
• When one woman was asked how long she had been going to symphony concerts, she paused to calculate and replied, "Forty-seven years -- and I find I mind it less and less.
  -- Louise Andrews Ke...
• 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....
• I was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old.
  At least, that's what he told us in the letter. -- Drew Carey...
• When I was 16, I thought there was no hope for my father.
  By the time I was 20, he had made great improvement....
• That's solid. There, you see how much I learned. -- Vice President Dan Quayle when when visiting a welding class at a vocational school in Union, Missouri.
  He welded two scraps of metal together to demonstrate how much he had learned while in the National Guard....