Quote#Beauty
India is like a bride which has got two beautiful and lustrous…
Quote bySyed Ahmed Khan · 1817–1898
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: In a speech at Patna on January 1883, Writings and Speeches of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Nachiketa Publications (1972), p. 160..
English (original)
India is like a bride which has got two beautiful and lustrous eyes—Hindus and Mussulmans. If they quarrel against each other that beautiful bride will become ugly and if one destroys the other, she will lose one eye.
— Syed Ahmed Khan
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