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"Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse."
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"I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house."

"You cannot clean a dirty wall with dirty hands."

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"We have successfully achieved the target of building toilets in schools"

"But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing."

"Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?"

"Accept only as much 'cleanliness' that it won't cause you to worry if it became dirty. Maintain 'cleanliness' such that and only to the point that it does not burden you into bondage."

"Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse."
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