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“If by abundance you mean everyone having plenty to eat and drink and to clothe himself with, enough to keep his mind trained and educated, I should be satisfied. But I should not like to pack more stuffs in my belly than I can digest and more things than I can ever usefully use. But neither do I want poverty, penury, misery, dirt and dust in India.”
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- Source:
- Harijan, (2 December 1938), p. 2
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c1be61cdd9a5cfbbffb5d9db9191db51d06199bcfccda77088bb38f40008c09d
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