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Nope, you were just way more annoying than you generally care to remember. Sorry you had to find out this way.
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If you say, "but actually I wasn't annoying as a teenager." Sorry, you missed your chance! Not my problem!
Nope, you were just way more annoying than you generally care to remember. Sorry you had to find out this way.
If you say, "but actually I wasn't annoying as a teenager." Sorry, you missed your chance! Not my problem!
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
i assumed this quote was fake, and while it is from 1907 and not ancient greece, there's similar sentiments from Plato and Xenophon quoted in the dissertation this is from on pages 73ff. This particular one is in the middle of page 74.
I honestly don't know what century this was originally written.
It's Socrates
Response above mine says otherwise, but my point was that you can look at any time period and find some grumpy adult saying when they were children they were respectful, unlike kids these days! I read somewhere that one of the oldest pieces of writing was lamenting how lazy people are now that they can write things down instead of having to memorize everything.