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“Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It would be very shocking - treason no doubt - to put the wrong people in my prayers.”
― H.M.S. Surprise
― H.M.S. Surprise
“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
“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”
― The Code of the Woosters
― The Code of the Woosters
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
“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
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