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Merely Quotes by George Orwell
- The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened…
- We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
- There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of…
- The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted…
- Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten…
- Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.
- Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here.…
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