George Orwell's Quote - We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the nig

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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For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity. – George Orwell

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Four legs good, two legs bad. – George Orwell

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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. – George Orwell

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The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. – Charlie Chaplin

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A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark. – Henry Louis Mencken

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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. – Gloria Steinem

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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. – Victor Hugo

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Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees. – Karl Baker

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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. – Harry S. Truman

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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one. – Lord Chesterfield

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So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. – John Drinkwater

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