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Claude Alvares Quotes

1947–1948

Claude Alphonso Alvares (born 1947 or 1948) is an Indian environmentalist based in Goa

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The Dutch are like the Hindus in their great tolerance.

It is perhaps easier now to understand the opinion of the traveller, Robert Orme, who, though often critical. was forced to admit that “the arts which furnish the conveniences of life have been carried by the Indians to a pitch far beyond which is necessary to supply the wants of a climate which knows so few”.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Claude Alvares (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.