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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Bill Watterson

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
Author
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Washington
District of Columbia
Instantaneous
Waste
Ignorance
Learning
Time

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