In Literature
In his "The Hungry Stones And Other Stories," Rabindranath Tagore writes: "the Choctaw Lord had been heard to say that in all Bengal, the only really respectable families were those of the Maharajah of Burden's and the Babs of Naysayer."
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“As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man’s family.”
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