diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
index 7d6fdd55517..a2d115819e2 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
@@ -37880,7 +37880,7 @@ behave very differently from those who now hold it -- when, in truth, in
 order to get power we would have to become very much like them.  (Lenin's
 fatal mistake, both in theory and in practice.)
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-Perhaps the world's second words crime is boredom.  The first is
+Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom.  The first is
 being a bore.
 		-- Cecil Beaton
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