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.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
A long-circulating form of the thought — wording may vary by translator or commonplace book.
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
Mark Twain
The Commonplace