Quotation by Louise J. Kaplan

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Now that adolescence is accessible to the multitude and not restricted to gentlemen and lords, many adults are taking alarm at what seems to be a barbaric horde of scruffy girls and boys out to dismantle the structure of society. It is hard to see any virtue in it at all. What the grown-ups see in its stead is considerable evidence of pride, covetousness, anger, gluttony, envy, sloth, and a great deal of lust.

Louise J. Kaplan

Louise J. Kaplan (20th century), U.S. psychologist. Adolescence, ch. 1 (1984).

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