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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
Approximate author period: c. 1926 AD · modern
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- Jawaharlal Nehru
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- Approximate author period: c. 1926 AD · modern
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