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India Quotes

Six of the best book quotes about india
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“It had been fun-those two months in India. He would miss Uncle Ralph, miss the days they had spent together in the jungle, even the screams of the panthers and the many eerie sounds of the jungle night. Never again would he think of a missionary’s work as easy work.”
Walter Farley
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The Black Stallion
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Alexander Ramsay
Uncle Ralph
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hard work
jungles
India
panthers
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“The tramp steamer Drake plowed away from the coast of India and pushed its blunt prow into the Arabian Sea, homeward bound.”
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“He had a nice little house of his own, a wife whom he loved dearly... still, it would have been nice, he often thought, if he could have seen something of the world before he met Mrs. Popper and settled down. He had never hunted tigers in India, or climbed the peaks of the Himalayas, or dived for pearls in the South Seas. Above all, he had never seen the Poles.”
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“Animals and birds inhabit this tale of extraordinary courage, told by one of Indias best childrens writers.”
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“It was taken away when the British left -the people of Bombay did not want to see a foreign ruler after independence, not even a stone one.”
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“Hari was shocked by the story but he did not like to be thought of as another orphan in Jagu’s care. He did have parents after all—even if one was a drunkard and the other an invalid—and a home, a proper home, not just a place on a railway platform.”

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