Quote by 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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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. – George Orwell

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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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Observe all men, thyself most. – Benjamin Franklin

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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. – William Butler Yeats

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Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. – Robert Frost

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All the worlds a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. – William Shakespeare

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