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Perhaps the scenes of travel conjure themselves up before me and pass and repass in my imagination all the more vividly, because I lead such a vegetable existence that a call to travel would fall upon me like a thunder-bolt.
Rabindranath Tagore, such a simple language... i had to agree, it's fun to be a dreamer andin a moment's time transport to any part of the world..it just few seconds to transport to those ages when the streets of London filled with Horse carriages, when Rajput queen Meera ditched Rana and dreamt about Krishna and sang his praise, it takes just a moment to dream and stay aloft on spaceship of star trek...
“Head of any government department should not be allowed to hold the post for prolonged time, as it may give him chance to establish friendly relationship with the subordinates to coverup his wrongdoings. It may give him time to spread the corruption in lower cadres as well as other functions. People of the society too gets afraid of the fact that official staying longer time in one post, may harm their individual interest directly or indirectly, and they can not complaint against such officials under a threat. || 2-9-33,34,35”
― Chanakya Niti on Corruption: Glimples of how Chanakya tackled menace of corruption 300 BCE in India?
― Chanakya Niti on Corruption: Glimples of how Chanakya tackled menace of corruption 300 BCE in India?
“The adventure is not in getting somewhere, it's the on-the-way experience. It is not the expected; it's the surprise. Not the fulfilment of prophecy, but the providence of something better than that prophesied.”
― Roads to Mussoorie
― Roads to Mussoorie
“black eyes need no translating; the mind itself throws a shadow upon them. In them thought opens or shuts, shines forth or goes out in darkness, hangs steadfast like the setting moon or like the swift and restless lightning illumines all quarters of the sky. They who from birth have had no other speech than the trembling of their lips learn a language of the eyes, endless in expression, deep as the sea, clear as the heavens, wherein play dawn and sunset, light and shadow. The”
― Stories from Tagore
― Stories from Tagore
“In the West they say, 'Never talk to strangers.' In the East they say, 'Always talk to strangers.' It was this stranger who gave us sustenance on the road, just as strangers had given me company on the way to the Pindar Glacier. On the open road there are no strangers. You share the same sky, the same mountain, the same sunshine and shade. On the open road we are all brothers. The”
― Roads to Mussoorie
― Roads to Mussoorie
“A blush is very becoming, Duchess,� remarked Lord Henry. “Only when one is young,� she answered. “When an old woman like myself blushes, it is a very bad sign. Ah! Lord Henry, I wish you would tell me how to become young again.� He thought for a moment. “Can you remember any great error that you committed in your early days, Duchess?� he asked, looking at her across the table. “A great many, I fear,� she cried. “Then commit them over again,� he said, gravely. “To get back one’s youth, one has merely to repeat one’s follies.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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