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Quotes from Animal Farm by George Orwell
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1 It went on for five minutes without stopping.
2 Some of them had five chins, some had four, some had three.
3 For five days the hens held out, then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes.
4 Soon there were five buckets of frothing creamy milk at which many of the animals looked with considerable interest.
5 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.
6 But everyone worked according to his capacity The hens and ducks, for instance, saved five bushels of corn at the harvest by gathering up the stray grains.
7 For a horse, it was said, the pension would be five pounds of corn a day and, in winter, fifteen pounds of hay, with a carrot or possibly an apple on public holidays.
8 They were so delighted with the song that they sang it right through five times in succession, and might have continued singing it all night if they had not been interrupted.
9 The advantage of only having to feed themselves, and not having to support five extravagant human beings as well, was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it.
10 And so within five minutes of their invasion they were in ignominious retreat by the same way as they had come, with a flock of geese hissing after them and pecking at their calves all the way.
11 At the beginning, when the laws of Animal Farm were first formulated, the retiring age had been fixed for horses and pigs at twelve, for cows at fourteen, for dogs at nine, for sheep at seven, and for hens and geese at five.
12 On Sunday mornings Squealer, holding down a long strip of paper with his trotter, would read out to them lists of figures proving that the production of every class of foodstuff had increased by two hundred per cent, three hundred per cent, or five hundred per cent, as the case might be.