We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned a…

Mark Twain
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We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years. ✨ Mark Twain (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated), p.8549, Delphi Classics
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