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"To appreciate heaven well 'Tis good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell."
"There's lots of people—this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them."
"I have talked with Betsy, and Betsy has talked with me, And so we've agreed together that we can't never agree."
"Betsy, like all good women, had a temper of her own."
"The more we arg'ed the question the more we didn't agree."
"Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way."
"Not a log in this buildin' but its memories has got And not a nail in this old floor but touches a tender spot."
"Fare you well, old house! you're naught that can feel or see, But you seem like a human bein'—a dear old friend to me; And we never will have a better home, if my opinion stands, Until we commence a-keepin' house in the house not made with hands."
"I don't complain of Betsy or any of her acts, Exceptin' when we 've quarreled and told each other facts."
"Things at home are crossways, and Betsy and I are out."
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.