Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
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China, Past and Present (1972) Ch. 6Pearl Buck
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Robert Browning
[Haile Selassie] never had the time, nor the means, to live through the age when one learns to distinguish between right and wrong. Raised among plots, intrigues and cruelty, he learned to survive through cynicism and all his life was focused on the struggle to conquer power and to hold onto it. He achieved this without any scruples, often turning to methods which would have shocked the Borgias and Machiavelli put together.
Haile I Selassie
One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
Lois McMaster Bujold
It was his peculiar doctrine that a man has a perfect right to interfere by force with the slaveholder, in order to rescue the slave. I agree with him. They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.
Henry David Thoreau
The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.
Willa Cather
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