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THE VAIRAGYA-SATAKAM
children with piteous looks pulling at her worn-out clothes, what self-respecting man would for the mere sake of his own petty stomach utter "give me" (i. e. become a supplicant for favour) in a voice faltering and sticking at the throat for fear of his prayer being refused?
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22. The pit of our stomach so hard to fill is the root indeed of no small undoing: it is ingenious in severing the vital knots, as it were, of our fond self-respect; it is like the bright moonlight shining on the lotus (that species which blooms only in the sun) of highly estimable virtues; it is the hatchet that hews down the luxuriant creepers of our great modesty.
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23. For the sake of filling the cavity
