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  1. Pearl S. Buck _ Living Reed: A Novel of Korea

    It is easy to destroy, but it is hard to create. Do not destroy what your brother creates."
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  2. Pearl S. Buck _ Living Reed: A Novel of Korea

    How can school help you with the land?" he asked.An old grandfather leaned out of the shadows to make answer. "Learning clears the mind," he said, "and books open the spirit of man to heaven and to the earth.""Do you know how to read?" Il-han asked.The old man touched his wrinkled eyelids. "These two eyes can see only the surface of what life is.
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  3. Pearl S. Buck _ Living Reed: A Novel of Korea

    Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people strange to them and for reasons they scarcely understood, even when they yielded up their lives. With such noble impulse and final sacrifice, let the past be forgot, except for what it teaches for the future.
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  4. Pearl S. Buck _ Living Reed: A Novel of Korea

    Somewhere in the periphery of his mind and consciousness was the warning that Russia must be watched. For hundreds of years Russia had wanted Korea for its seacoast, its treasures of metals and minerals hidden in the mountains, its fisheries, the power of its rushing rivers and high tides. He did not believe that the heart of Russia was changed. Her ambitions might even be sharpened and intensified by a new government of hungry men, whose ancestors had been half-starved peasants. It was now their turn to grow fat and grow rich.
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  5. Pearl S. Buck _ Living Reed: A Novel of Korea

    The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals.
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