“Hell is truth seen too late.”
― Leviathan
― Leviathan
“A cripple, on the threshold of manhood, returning from the wars with a broken body, with no thought of telling of brave deeds done, but only eager to tell his father that with his own eyes he had seen the man who years ago he had not had the opportunity of seeing, a man whose only claim to remembrance was that he had fired one accurate shot.
A typical son of Garhwal, of that simple and hardy hill-folk; and of that greater India, whose sons only those few who live among them are privileged to know. It is these big-hearted sons of the soil, no matter what their caste or creed, who will one day weld the contending factions into a composite whole, and make of India a great nation.”
― Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
A typical son of Garhwal, of that simple and hardy hill-folk; and of that greater India, whose sons only those few who live among them are privileged to know. It is these big-hearted sons of the soil, no matter what their caste or creed, who will one day weld the contending factions into a composite whole, and make of India a great nation.”
― Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
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“Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
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