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Quote by George Orwell
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between ones real and ones declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. – George Orwell

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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. – George Orwell

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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. – George Orwell

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