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Quotes from Animal Farm by George Orwell
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1 To tell you the truth, I had been looking forward to my retirement.
2 She was two years past the retiring age, but in fact no animal had ever actually retired.
3 She was two years past the retiring age, but in fact no animal had ever actually retired.
4 As yet no animal had actually retired on pension, but of late the subject had been discussed more and more.
5 He had, he said, only one real ambition left--to see the windmill well under way before he reached the age for retirement.
6 Having got there, he collected two successive loads of stone and dragged them down to the windmill before retiring for the night.
7 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.
8 Even when it was resolved--a thing no one could object to in itself--to set aside the small paddock behind the orchard as a home of rest for animals who were past work, there was a stormy debate over the correct retiring age for each class of animal.