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Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

Al Capp

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Al Capp
Age: 70 †
Born: 1909
Born: September 28
Died: 1979
Died: November 5
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Journalist
Writer
New Haven
Connecticut
Alfred Gerald Caplin
Ignorant
Generation
Worse
Generations
Nobody
Today
Repulsive
Listened
Younger

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