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Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense.

Celia Green

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Celia Green
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: November 26
Philosopher
Writer
Simple
Malice
Enjoy
Expense
Another
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Young
Adult
Things
Boring
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Adults
World
Wonder
Covert
People
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In an autocracy, one person has his way in an aristocracy, a few people have their way in a democracy, no one has his way.
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