Judith Martin Quote
The invention of the teenager was a mistake. [...] Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes—naturally no one wants to live any other way.
Miss Manners' guide for the turn-of-the-millennium (Pharos Books, 1989), p. 239
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