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Youth today are ungrateful; they contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.
by cynicalsecurity 6mo ago
Youth today are ungrateful; they contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.
- RyanOD 6mo agoOh yeah, we never did ANY of that when we were kids...
- Biganon 6mo agoIt's a quote (wrongly) attributed to Socrates
- dgfl 6mo agoFor 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-71fb-4237-9899-dd1a7772112b https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/#e6c0268a...