India Through the Ages A Popular and Picturesque History of Hindustan Quotes

“The fiction which resembles truth," said the Persian poet Nizâmi in the year 1250, "is better than the truth which is dissevered from the imagination";”
― Flora Annie Steel, India Through the Ages A Popular and Picturesque History of Hindustan

“A worthy old scholar, criticising the king's penmanship, pointed out a fault. He, smiling, erased the word, but when the critic was gone, began to restore it, remarking that it was right, but it was better to spoil paper than the self-confidence of an old man.”
― Flora Annie Steel, India Through the Ages A Popular and Picturesque History of Hindustan