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“I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Wikiquote: Mahatma Gandhi
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Context

The Great Sentinel in Young India 13 October 1921

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Gandhi, Mahatma. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Mahatma Gandhi. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi

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