ARROGANCE
Alcibiades was telling Pericles, forty years his senior, how best to govern Athens. This did not amuse Pericles. He said, “Alcibiades, when I was your age, I talked just as you do now.” Alcibiades replied, “How I should like to have known you, Pericles, when you were at your best.” Adapted from The Little Brown Book of Anecdotes, Clifton Fadiman, Editor, page 9.
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