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First Quotes by George Orwell
- I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was…
- During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than…
- We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
- She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard…
- Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy Calm and commanding…
- What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the…
- Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
- We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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