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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

Other quotes by George Orwell

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. – George Orwell

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Virtue
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George Orwell
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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. – George Orwell

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Men
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George Orwell
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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Men

Wise men make more opportunities than they find. – Francis Bacon

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Men

Mens private self-worlds are rather like our geographical worlds seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping. – Faith Baldwin

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Men

There is no better proof of a mans being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn whats best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when youre banging your head against a brick wall all the time. – John McEnroe

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. – C. S. Lewis

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The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size. – Gertrude S. Wister

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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. – Dag Hammarskjold

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