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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

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Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

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I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

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Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

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Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

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It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

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The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.

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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

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Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

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Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.

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You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes.

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Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

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The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong. Our attitude towards our equals in age consists in a servile solemnity, overlying a considerable degree of indifference or disdain. Our attitude towards children consists in a condescending indulgence, overlying an unfathomable respect.

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My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

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Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

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There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.

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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

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The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

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