https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:33:50 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/buck-pearl-s/36197/ https://wist.info/buck-pearl-s/36197/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2017 21:28:47 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=36197 Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer
My Several Worlds, Part 4 (1954)
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