I hereby inflict the ancient curse upon you
whenever you think an anime character is hot, you will go to the wikia page and find out that they are inexplicably 13 years old
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and you don't even wanna know the first
(The other Jane)
Yes and no. It's a corruption of an extract from a letter written by Austen Chamberlain in response to a colleague who wrote that they were "living in an interesting age." Chamberlain stated that a Chinese diplomat had once informed him that "may you live in an interesting age" (or some variant) was one of the more common slights made against an enemy there. The construction is apparently itself a paraphrase of a 17th century historian, who remarked that it is better to be a dog in a time of peace than a man in a time of trouble and confusion. I have no doubt that diplomats would probably quote that as a backhanded way of insulting people, given the culture of politeness that existed in Imperial China which made classy backhanded comments a bit of a thing. But the phrasing was probably far less simple.