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Q. Who said that ‘the real seat of taste is not the tongue but the mind.’?

A
Mahatma Gandhi
B
Aurobindo Ghosh
C
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
D
Swami Vivekananda

Correct Answer

Mahatma Gandhi

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