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Better Quotes by George Orwell
- You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts…
- If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do…
- If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.
- In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.
- And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a…
- No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since,…
- The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
- ...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.
- Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much…
- All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are…
- And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.
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