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The Odyssey

by Homer

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Sumirti’s Quotes

“How queer, the Hindus don’t feed their cows although they call the cow “mother”!’ Bakha thought.”
― Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable

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“The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.”
― Carl Hiaasen

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“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
― Michel Onfray

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“Manto had earlier been prosecuted in Lahore for obscenity, and one of the words alleged to have been obscene was, “breasts”
― Saadat Hasan Manto, Why I Write: Essays by Saadat Hasan Manto

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“The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not always be very brilliant, they are always perfectly genuine”
― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

tags: morality, prudence, work-ethic

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