On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. – George Orwell
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. – George Orwell

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. – George Orwell
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. – George Orwell
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. – George Orwell
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. – George Orwell