“We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.”
— Pearl S. Buck
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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.”
— Pearl S. Buck
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“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
— Pearl S. Buck
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“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.”
— Pearl S. Buck
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“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
— Pearl S. Buck
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“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.”
— Pearl S. Buck
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“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.”
— Pearl S. Buck
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“The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.”
— Pearl S. Buck
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“In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.”
— Pearl S. Buck
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“Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.”
— Pearl S. Buck
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“Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.”
— Pearl S. Buck
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