• When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835-1910
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1. twenty-one
2. astonished
3. learned
4. around
5. seven
6. years

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When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. by : Mark Twain

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