• If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

  Russell Hoban
  American writer 1925-2011
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1. bothered
2. history
3. wasted
4. great

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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. by : Russell Hoban

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