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Quote by George Orwell
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human being

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. – 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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I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. – Samuel Johnson

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