"You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?"

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Source : Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.26, The Floating Press

Stephen Leacock

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