Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth (1927), trans. Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter XIV: My Choice.
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I read Salt's book [A Plea for Vegetarianism] from cover to cover and was very much impressed by it. From the date of reading this book, I may claim to have become a vegetarian by choice.

— Mahatma Gandhi on Henry Stephens Salt

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I read Salt's book [A Plea for Vegetarianism] from cover to cover and was very much impressed by it. From the date of reading this book, I may claim to have become a vegetarian by choice." in the context of "Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth (1927), trans. Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter XIV: My Choice." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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