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Friday, September 17, 2004
A Rule of Conduct
Mohandas K. Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1949; rpt. New York: Dover, 1983), p. 78:
It went against the grain with me to do a thing in secret that I would not do in public.