Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
Pearl S. BuckFrench is the most beautiful,โ he said, โand Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.
Pearl S. BuckProfound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.
Pearl S. Buck