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by cynicalsecurity 50 days ago
Youth today are ungrateful; they contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.
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dgfl 50 days ago
For context, this is paraphrasing a 1907 manuscript by Kenneth John Freeman [1], which itself was summarizing the complains that older generations would direct against the youth in Ancient Greece.

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/#e6c0268a...

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RyanOD 50 days ago
Oh yeah, we never did ANY of that when we were kids...
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Biganon 50 days ago
It's a quote (wrongly) attributed to Socrates
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