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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
Pearl S. Buck
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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
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Human Rights Activist
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Hillsboro
Oregon
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The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.
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Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
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Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
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A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.
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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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