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  1. Pearl S. Buck _ The Good Earth

    and when he was weary he lay down upon his land and he slept and the health of the earth spread into his flesh and he was healed of his sickness.
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  2. Pearl S. Buck _ The Good Earth

    Well, and every man has his troubles and I must make shift to live with mine as I can,
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  3. Pearl S. Buck _ The Good Earth

    Day by day beneath the opulence of this city Wang Lung lived in the foundations of poverty upon which it was laid.
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  4. Pearl S. Buck _ The Good Earth

    But O-Lan returned to the beating of his clothes and when tears dropped slowly and heavily from her eyes she did not put up her hand to wipe them away; only she beat the more steadily with her wooden stick upon the clothes spread over the stone.
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  5. Pearl S. Buck _ The Good Earth

    But the boy only muttered bitterly,
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  6. Pearl S. Buck _ The Good Earth

    There in that land of mine is buried the first good half of my life and more. It is as though half of me were buried there, and now it is a different life in my house.
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  7. Pearl S. Buck _ The Good Earth

    Yes, but there was the land. Money and food are eaten and gone, and if there is not sun and rain in proportion, there is again hunger.
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  8. Pearl S. Buck _ The Good Earth

    It is but another war somewhere. Who knows what all this fighting to and fro is about? But so it has been since I was a lad and so will it be after I am dead and well I know it.
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  9. Pearl S. Buck _ The Good Earth

    One would have said he was his son's servant rather than his father.
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  10. Pearl S. Buck _ The Good Earth

    Some do it for a good deed for the future, that by saving lives they may get merit in heaven, and some do it for righteousness that men may speak well of them. Nevertheless it is a good deed for whatever reason, and some must do it out of a good heart.
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  11. Pearl S. Buck _ The Good Earth

    Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver, out of his earth that he ploughed and turned and spent himself upon. He took his life from this earth; drop by drop by his sweat he wrung food from it and from the food, silver. Each time before this that he had taken the silver out to give to anyone, it had been like taking a piece of his life and giving it to someone carelessly. But now for the first time such giving was not pain. He saw, not the silver in the alien hand of a merchant in the town; he saw the silver transmuted into something worth even more than itself-clothes upon the body of his son.
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  12. Pearl S. Buck _ The Good Earth

    Wang Lung, seeing them, was fit to burst with pride at this procession of his goodly sons, who were to continue after him the life of his body;"
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