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"Boy, I don’t want you to become an electrician. I was working in the English Building today, and I saw those fellows with their feet up on their desks, smoking their pipes and reading their books. That’s the job for you."

Roger Ebert’s father, explaining why he wouldn’t let his son watch him do any electrical wiring.

(Source: books.google.com)

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