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प्रश्न
What is the significance of the title? To who or to what does it refer?
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उत्तर
The title refers to the great quality boots Mr Gessler made. It is an ideal title for the lesson. It refers to the business practices followed these days where no one cares about quality.
For Mr Gessler, quality was of optimum significance. He worked for long hours, didn’t allow anyone else to touch his boots. He lost on business, was spending days in poverty still the man didn’t compromise on quality.
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They have their exits and their entrances;
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His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
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Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
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Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation.
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Each one possessed a stick of wood,
Or so the story's told.
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The first man held his back.
For on the faces around the fire,
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Multiple Choice Question:
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Read the lines given below and answer the following question:
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