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"17 Khushwant Singh Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 2 February 1915. Died: 20 March 2014 | Author | Lawyer | Diplomat | Journalist | Politician |

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

The world Draped Mantle Night
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Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.

Freedom Educated people Slave English
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Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.
Morality Matter Money Poor people
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The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned

Last Learn Gossip Parties concerned
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The doer must do only when the receiver is ready to receive. Otherwise, the act is wasted.

The doer When Receiver Is ready
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Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

Your principle See everything Say nothing World changes
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Once through this ruined city did I pass I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked ‘What knowest thou of this wilderness?’ It replied: 'I can sum it up in two words: ‘Alas, Alas!

One through Ruined city Lonely bird
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Consciousness of the bad is an essential prerequisite to the promotion of the good.

Consciousness Bad An essentials Prerequisite
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But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end

Big people Illness Sound big Simple shutting
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When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

Have counted Eighty years Time Fate
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We also knew that it was in the nature of an empty stomach to produce illusions of grandeur.

Nature Empty stomach Produce illusions Grandeur
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So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind When just the art of being kind is all that the sad world needs.

So many Gods Creeds Many paths
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Little mother of ancient days: Thou hast cunningly dyed thy hair but consider That thy bent back will never be straight!

Little mother Ancient days Hair Consider
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Men have many faults, women only two: Everything they say, and everything they do.

Men Have Many faults Women
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In the absence of men all women are chaste.

Absence Men Women Are chaste
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Under the circumstances the only honest answer an intelligent person can give to the question ‘Is there a God?’ is to say, ‘I do not know.

Circumstance Honest answer Intelligent Question
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The eye hath ruined me,’ the heart complained. ‘The heart has lost me,’ the eye replied. I know not which told the truth, which lied Between, the two, it was Meer who died.

Ruined me Heart complained Eye replied
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Khushwant Singh Quotes & Sayings