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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

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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doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.
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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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I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.
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Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
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Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.
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Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
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There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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Love alone could waken love.
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A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.
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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
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All birth is unwilling.
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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
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the heart never grows old.
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To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.
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It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.
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