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, 17:31, May 29, 2017Avoided? Why should any of these books be avoided?
::Pearl S. Buck's parents were Presbyterian missionaries who were stationed in China, and she was raised there with her family. She came to the US for college, then returned to China and married her first husband, John Buck, who was also a missionary. Hardly suspicious reasons for being in China, would you say? --[[User:SharonW|SharonW]] 00:23, 23 September 2011 (EDT)
::Pearl S. Buck's parents were Presbyterian missionaries who were stationed in China, and she was raised there with her family. She came to the US for college, then returned to China and married her first husband, John Buck, who was also a missionary. Hardly suspicious reasons for being in China, would you say? --[[User:SharonW|SharonW]] 00:23, 23 September 2011 (EDT)
:::I responded to your comments on [[User_talk:KevinDavis#Pearl_S._Buck_and_The_Good_Earth|my talk page]]. Please let me know if you need any information. Unless you can provide a credible reason to remove the work, I believe it should remain. I stated numerous supporting reasons, with loose textual support, in my reply on my talk page. Let me know if you need anything else; thank you! [[User:KevinDavis|Kevin Davis]] <sup>[[User talk:KevinDavis|Talk]]</sup> 19:15, 23 September 2011 (EDT)
:::I responded to your comments on [[User_talk:KevinDavis#Pearl_S._Buck_and_The_Good_Earth|my talk page]]. Please let me know if you need any information. Unless you can provide a credible reason to remove the work, I believe it should remain. I stated numerous supporting reasons, with loose textual support, in my reply on my talk page. Let me know if you need anything else; thank you! [[User:KevinDavis|Kevin Davis]] <sup>[[User talk:KevinDavis|Talk]]</sup> 19:15, 23 September 2011 (EDT)
==Avoided? Why should any of these books be avoided?==
<blockquote>If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle - Sun Tzu (Art of War, Chapter 3)</blockquote>
Should then we be reading selected works carefully, not because we want to emulate them, but because its information we necessarily have to have? [[User:Progressingamerica|Progressingamerica]] ([[User talk:Progressingamerica|talk]]) 13:31, 29 May 2017 (EDT)