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Quotes from Animal Farm by George Orwell
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1 It was a dream of the earth as it will be when Man has vanished.
2 Ribbons," he said, "should be considered as clothes, which are the mark of a human being.
3 Now, as it turned out, the Rebellion was achieved much earlier and more easily than anyone had expected.
4 It had been agreed that they should all meet in the big barn as soon as Mr. Jones was safely out of the way.
5 Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
6 As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings.
7 The work of teaching and organising the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognised as being the cleverest of the animals.
8 Some of the animals talked of the duty of loyalty to Mr. Jones, whom they referred to as "Master," or made elementary remarks such as "Mr. Jones feeds us."
9 I do not think, comrades, that I shall be with you for many months longer, and before I die, I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom as I have acquired.
10 Then they sang 'Beasts of England' from end to end seven times running, and after that they settled down for the night and slept as they had never slept before.
11 I have had a long life, I have had much time for thought as I lay alone in my stall, and I think I may say that I understand the nature of life on this earth as well as any animal now living.
12 Even the stupidest of them had already picked up the tune and a few of the words, and as for the clever ones, such as the pigs and dogs, they had the entire song by heart within a few minutes.
13 They had never seen animals behave like this before, and this sudden uprising of creatures whom they were used to thrashing and maltreating just as they chose, frightened them almost out of their wits.
14 These two had great difficulty in thinking anything out for themselves, but having once accepted the pigs as their teachers, they absorbed everything that they were told, and passed it on to the other animals by simple arguments.
15 Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.
16 Their first act was to gallop in a body right round the boundaries of the farm, as though to make quite sure that no human being was hiding anywhere upon it; then they raced back to the farm buildings to wipe out the last traces of Jones's hated reign.
17 We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty.
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