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"Pie kieli keskel suudu! (Säämäjärvi, Karelia) (KNM)"
"A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind."
"Speak to me in many voices Make them all sound like one Let me see your sacred mysteries Reveal to me the Unknown Tongue."
"Better the feet slip than the tongue."
"Most of the sins of the children of Adam are on their tongues."
"Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing."
"Tongues I'll hang on every tree, That shall civil sayings show."
"My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will."
"You play the spaniel, And think with wagging of your tongue to win me."
"My tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp."
"The heart hath treble wrong When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue."
"Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup, That runs for ages without winding up?"
"The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge."
"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
"He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel."
"The windy satisfaction of the tongue."
"The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil."
"Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue."
"Lingua mali pars pessima servi."
"I should think your tongue had broken its chain!"
"In her tongue is the law of kindness."
"From the strife of tongues."
"Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile."
"My tongue is the pen of a ready writer."
"Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee."
"So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kind of arguments and question deep, All replication prompt, and reason strong, For his advantage still did wake and sleep; To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep, He had the dialect and different skill, Catching all passions in his craft of will."
"The stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword; but not so many as have fallen by the tongue."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.