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Autobiography and memoir

The test of civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Pearl S. Buck

1954

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Caring for the vulnerable Civilization Politics

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Autobiography and memoir

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1954

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Pearl S. Buck

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Buck, Pearl S. My Several Worlds. John Day Company, 1954.

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