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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
Pearl S. Buck
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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
Autobiographer
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
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Hillsboro
Oregon
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the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
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The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
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