"May you live in interesting times": the expression is attributed to a Chinese curse. Turns out to be a load of rubbish: It was actually a shitpost (of its era) from a very extremely white dude
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austen_Chamberlain
Peter Cohen
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