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Re:The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 awarded to Bob Dylan by irremediable on Thursday October 13, 2016 @10:29AM (#12700976)
I believe this quote is apocryphal. AFAIK it's actually quoting a play by Aristophanes that poked fun at Socrates -- a play that put these words in his mouth.
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Re:The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 awarded to Bob Dylan by ptaipale on Thursday October 13, 2016 @11:19AM (#12701298)
Very possible. The point is merely that lamenting the ways of the youth is a very old phenomenon.
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