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TIL the famous Socrates quote about children being disrespectful and having bad manners was actually a fabrication written by a Canadian college student in 1907 (quoteinvestigator.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Preventer79@sh.itjust.works to c/todayilearned@lemmy.ml

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago

Well, let's not tell anyone because this shuts the old yapper's clap trap it's good enough for me. Anyway, socrates didn't say anything because he was largely a made up composite character, Socrates is basically Aristotle's Fan Fic

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