In her book The Mitford Girls, Mary S. Lovell writes as follows:
"... when he [Mark Twain] was fourteen his father was so ignorant that he could hardly bear to be near him. "But when I got to twenty-one I was astonished at how much he had learned in only seven years."
"... when he [Mark Twain] was fourteen his father was so ignorant that he could hardly bear to be near him. "But when I got to twenty-one I was astonished at how much he had learned in only seven years."
I hadn't read this book but already knew the quotation.
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