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"Cést un langage estrange que le Basque... On dit qu’ils s’entendent, je n’en croy rien."
"Basque is demonstrably related to other languages... a scientific analysis of the evidence leads to the most probable conclusion that Basque is, at first remove, most closely related to the North Caucasian language family."
"Vos dona, eu dona, quen botará o porco fora?"
"Cada cabell fa sa ombra."
"Com més vell més poc cervell."
"De l'arbre dolent no esperis bon fruit."
"De mica en mica s'omple la pica i de gota en gota s'omple la bota."
"El gos vell quan lladra dona consell."
"Els peixos grossos sempre es menjaran els minuts."
"El temps és or."
"El treball segons el jornal."
"Entrar per una orella i sortir per l'altre."
"És pitjor el remei que la malaltia."
"L'à liga no caça mosques."
"La paciència és la mare de la ciència."
"La paraula bona molt val i poc costa."
"L'ocasió s'ha d'agafar pels pèls."
"La burla deixar-la quan més plau."
"La persevança tot ho alcança."
"Les fruites i els amors, els primers són els millors."
"Les persones es troben, les muntanyes no."
"Lo mentider no es cregud de las veritats."
"Mal ocell el que s'embruta en son."
"Molts componedros descomposen la nuvida."
"Ningú pot dir: d'aquesta aigua no en beuré."
"Ningú pot servir a dos senyors."
"No diguis blat que no sigui al sac i ben lligat."
"No hi ha gloria sense enveja."
"Obra començada, mig acabada."
"Per tos fills ben richs deixar, No vulles lo In fern guanyår."
"Ratolà que no més coneix un forat, està atrapat."
"Quan el gat no hi es, les rates ballen."
"Qui estima el gos, estim el seu amo."
"Qui pren l'ágila per la cua i la dóna per la palabre, pot dir queres no tè."
"S'atrapa abans a un mentider que a un coix."
"Segons la mesura que farà s, tal mesura trobarà s."
"Un clau en treu un altre."
"A boca tancada, no hi entren mosques."
"Val més andar sol que mal acompanyat."
"Val més mala avinença que bona sentencia."
"Uns alcen la caça i altres la maten."
"A vegades una gallina cega troba un gra."
"Barber piadòs encangrena la plaga."
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.