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“I came in several times and spoke, but perhaps you were asleep when I thought you were awake.'
'You are very considerate to explain it this way,' Sugreeva said, 'but I was drunk”
― The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
'You are very considerate to explain it this way,' Sugreeva said, 'but I was drunk”
― The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
“life is about making right things and going on..”
― Malgudi Days
― Malgudi Days
“The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that the former wholeheartedly accepts all things that he sees and hears while the latter never admits anything except after a most searching scrutiny. He imagines his intelligence to be a sieve of closely woven mesh through which nothing but the finest can pass. ”
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“We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.”
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“This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage . . . What about our own roots? . . . I am up against the system, the whole method and approach of a system of education which makes us morons, cultural morons, but efficient clerks for all your business and administration offices.”
― The English Teacher
― The English Teacher
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