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Gandhi: An Autobiography by Mohandas K. Gandhi — WisdomDeck honest review
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Gandhi: An Autobiography

by Mohandas K. Gandhi

The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Gandhi's own account of his formation through 1921, told as a series of moral experiments. Plain, candid and strange in the best way.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Treat life as experiment.
  2. Truth above comfort.
  3. Self-rule before political rule.

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Experiments with truth.

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