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  1. Pearl S. Buck _ A House Divided

    Loneliness is only sweet to a man if it rids him of presences irksome and unwanted, and it is no longer sweet when the beloved presences are discovered.
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  2. Pearl S. Buck _ A House Divided

    And will you understand me when I say I would fight to keep you free from such beliefs because for you they would be false, and at the same time I would fight to keep my mother in those same beliefs because for her they are true and necessary? She would be lost without them, for by them she has lived and by them she mustdie. But you and l-we must have our own beliefsto live and die in
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  3. Pearl S. Buck _ A House Divided

    and they looked with coming hatred and with fear upon this young man, saying in their hearts they knew he lied, because they could not believe there was in the whole world a man who would choose an earthen house when he might have a great one.
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  4. Pearl S. Buck _ A House Divided

    Yuan could not for his life say, "This man is rich and evil, and this man is poor and good," and so he was spoiled for any cause-making, however great the cause.
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  5. Pearl S. Buck _ A House Divided

    and comforted by his greater wisdom he fell asleep again deeply in the darkness and the stillness.
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  6. Pearl S. Buck _ A House Divided

    For this Mary's words were not surcharged with oversubtle meaning. No, she spoke them out swiftly and with sharp clearness and each word had its own weight and meaning and no more, good tools of her mind, but not messengers of vague suggestion.
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