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1  Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
2  We don't all have the privilege of fighting in the front line, but at least we can all keep fit.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
3  The little man sat down, quite at his ease, and yet still with a servant-like air, the air of a valet enjoying a privilege.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
4  The older kind of Socialist, who had been trained to fight against something called 'class privilege' assumed that what is not hereditary cannot be permanent.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
5  It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which WEALTH, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while POWER remained in the hands of a small privileged caste.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
6  It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
7  For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9