Gandhi and Tagore. Two types entirely different from each other, and yet both of them typical of India, both in the long line of India's great men ... It is not so much because of any single virtue but because of the tout ensemble, that I felt that among the world's great men today Gandhi and Tagore were supreme as human beings. What good fortune for me to have come into close contact with them.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Gandhi and Tagore. Two types entirely different from each other, and yet both of them typical of India, both in the long line of India's great men ... It is not so much because of any single virtue but because of the tout ensemble, that I felt that among the world's great men today Gandhi and Tagore were supreme as human beings. What good fortune for me to have come into close contact with them." in the context of "Jawaharlal Nehru, Diary, August 7, 1941. Quoted in Anders Hallengren, Nobel Laureates in Search of Identity and Integrity: Voices of Different Cultures. World Scientific, 2004 (p. 180)." to mean that wisdom is timeless.