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Pearl S. Buck: Learning is the very Heart of LIFE

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What makes a novel 'American'? Pearl S. Buck challenged the status quo -  The Pulitzer Prizes

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”

― Pearl S. Buck

I was not ambitious to be learned because of the honors it might confer, for I was taught that ambition itself was not the quality of a learned person.

One must love learning for its own sake.

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