“Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.”
Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer
China, Past and Present (1972) Ch. 6
“No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that “amusements” are not so amusing.”
Source: Path of Life (1909), p. 81
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