The difficulties of keeping to his own rigid mode of protective habit usually become too much in the end for a fastidious traveller. Sooner or later, he succumbs to them and has to give way to the polluting drinking vessels, contaminating eating plates, and meat-smelling restaurants of the non-Brahmin castes. An iron will and inflexible determination to hold to one's regime is needed.

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 3: Diet > # 124