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The Good Earth (1931)
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It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
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Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung
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He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest.
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It is better not to say lend. There is no lending in that house. There is only giving.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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Born:
June 26, 1892
Died:
March 6, 1973
(aged 80)
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