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Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Approximate author period: c. 1908 AD · modern

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Mahatma Gandhi
Attribution: attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1908 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1869 to 1948; Wikidata Q1001, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1001 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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