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Book II, X
Napoleon the Little (1852)
“If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.”
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 299
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