“A man's greatness is determined by his heart not by the caste and the lineage he brings.”
Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959) Nepali poet
मुनामदन (Munamadan)
“What value is lineage to a drowning man?”
— Robert Silverberg, book A Time of Changes
Source: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 40 (p. 142)
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