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Famous Pearl S. Buck Quotes
“The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.”
Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record
“when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.”
Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record
Source: My Several Worlds
Source: God's Men: A Novel
Source: The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir
“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
Source: Peony: A Novel of China
Source: Good Earth
“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”
“Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.”
“When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.”
“There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.”