American - Novelist | June 26, 1892 - March 6, 1973
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
Pearl S. Buck
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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
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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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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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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
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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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Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
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