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Quotes from Animal Farm by George Orwell
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1 They were just coming down the stairs when Mollie was discovered to be missing.
2 And every animal down to the humblest worked at turning the hay and gathering it.
3 The attempt to tame the wild creatures, for instance, broke down almost immediately.
4 A little way down the pasture there was a knoll that commanded a view of most of the farm.
5 The birds jumped on to their perches, the animals settled down in the straw, and the whole farm was asleep in a moment.
6 Napoleon sent for pots of black and white paint and led the way down to the five-barred gate that gave on to the main road.
7 Clover made a sort of wall round them with her great foreleg, and the ducklings nestled down inside it and promptly fell asleep.
8 A minute later all five of them were in full flight down the cart-track that led to the main road, with the animals pursuing them in triumph.
9 First came the three dogs, Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher, and then the pigs, who settled down in the straw immediately in front of the platform.
10 So the animals trooped down to the hayfield to begin the harvest, and when they came back in the evening it was noticed that the milk had disappeared.
11 The hens perched themselves on the window-sills, the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters, the sheep and cows lay down behind the pigs and began to chew the cud.
12 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.
13 You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker, who will cut your throat and boil you down for the foxhounds.
14 The two cart-horses, Boxer and Clover, came in together, walking very slowly and setting down their vast hairy hoofs with great care lest there should be some small animal concealed in the straw.
15 The two horses had just lain down when a brood of ducklings, which had lost their mother, filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side to find some place where they would not be trodden on.
16 A white stripe down his nose gave him a somewhat stupid appearance, and in fact he was not of first-rate intelligence, but he was universally respected for his steadiness of character and tremendous powers of work.
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