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> but since I was young and smarter than him and gonna be really awesome early on in my life and and and and I ignored him. I feel your pain... Among my favori
by jpdoctor 15y ago
> but since I was young and smarter than him and gonna be really awesome early on in my life and and and and I ignored him.
I feel your pain... Among my favorite Mark Twain quotes:
"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."
Edit: Damn you Czarnian. http://www.snopes.com/quotes/twain.asp http://www.snopes.com/quotes/twain.asp
OK, I will henceforth attribute it to Abraham Lincoln.
- Czarnian 15y agoMark Twain didn't say this. His father died when he was 13. Not necessarily a bad sentiment, just not a Mark Twain thing.
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- zackzackzack 15y agoThe trick is to be just be bitter enough that you won't let it happen again. But not so bitter that the situation doesn't have a chance to repeat itself, i.e. you are setup to really good things if you don't mess up.