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“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Poet and Nobel laureate
The Fourfold Way of India (1924); this has become paraphrased as "Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend."
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- Rabindranath Tagore
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- The Fourfold Way of India (1924); this has become paraphrased as "Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend."
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- Bengali
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