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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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"Faithfulness to one's word is one of the principles of discipline."
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"The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character."
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"Trials makes you to develop the qualities of a successful man."
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"You become a hypocrite when you can't freely be at peace with others, but you can carry green palm leaves to church to commemorate "palm Sunday"! Throw those palm leaves somewhere; and lay your life down for someone to walk on and get to the destined land!"
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"Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended."
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"I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they would not venture to own their heresy; and they cannot afford to be deficient in any of the other virtues, as they would give advantage to their many enemies; and they have not, like orthodox sinners, such a number of friends to excuse or justify them."
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"If stupidity were a gift, only a few would have it."
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"Bear in mind that humility is not timidity."
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"The people of great value are the people who have a noble inner man."
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"When I say "no" to some activities that I believe are ungodly, some people say I am "nobody". Yes, I agree", "no" body; that's who I am. I am a "body" that can say "no" to bad attitudes!"
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"Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself."
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"In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write."
Faith

"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."
Man

"The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it generation after generation."
Growth

"And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was."
War

"The narrator refers to a character as 'an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them."
Power

"When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there."
Truth

"Wandering is never waste, dear boy, ' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation."
Journey

"For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about life itself, his own being among others, wherever he lived for the moment, there was his home."
Identity

"And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how much they would eat and sleep, and of what dainties they would eat that they had never tasted, and how they would gamble in this great tea shop and in that, and what pretty women they would buy for their lust, and above all, how none would ever work again, even as they rich man behind the wall never worked."
Ego
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