Indian Independence

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    “The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, and again, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.”
    —Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)