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Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
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
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.
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starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
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If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.
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Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.
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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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What the common man cannot understand he hates.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.
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