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“Jack, you've debauched my sloth.”
― H.M.S. Surprise
― H.M.S. Surprise
“Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family, and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the authority, by some hundreds and see the effect upon a sea-captain, to say nothing of an absolute monarch. Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; unless it so happens that he is immune to the poison.”
― H.M.S. Surprise
― H.M.S. Surprise
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
“In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.”
― Shooting an Elephant
― Shooting an Elephant
“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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