"Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked."
— Robert Browning

January 1, 1970

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Not Browning, but a misquotation from Pearl Buck's China, Past and Present: "Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked".