“So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.”
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“Ashoka supplemented this general moral and political principle by a dialectical argument based on enlightened self-interest: ‘For he who does reverence to his own sect while disparaging the sects of others wholly from attachment to his own sect, in reality inflicts, by such conduct, the severest injury on his own sect.”
― The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
― The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
“A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it.”
― Love's Labour's Lost
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it.”
― Love's Labour's Lost
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