All Pearl S. Buck Quotes
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
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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.
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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
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Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
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To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
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The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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