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Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth Quotes: To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!
         

To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)


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To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!
         



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