The ideal of truth requires that vows taken should be fulfilled in the spirit as well as in the letter. In the present case I killed the spirit – the soul of my vow – by adhering to its outer form only, and that is what galls me.
 Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth (1929). copy citation

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Author Mahatma Gandhi
Source The Story of my Experiments with Truth
Topic truth present
Date 1929
Language English
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Note Translated from the Gujarati by Mahadev Desai in 1940
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