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Quotes from Animal Farm by George Orwell
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2 If asked why, he would say that he saw nothing to laugh at.
3 When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say.
4 Mollie," she said, "I have something very serious to say to you.
5 But before doing so, there were a few words that he felt it incumbent upon him to say.
6 When asked whether he was not happier now that Jones was gone, he would say only "Donkeys live a long time."
7 When the cheering had died down, Napoleon, who had remained on his feet, intimated that he too had a few words to say.
8 And he very nearly succeeded--I will even say, comrades, he WOULD have succeeded if it had not been for our heroic Leader, Comrade Napoleon.
9 The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
10 He set his ears back, shook his forelock several times, and tried hard to marshal his thoughts; but in the end he could not think of anything to say.
11 They had just finished singing it for the third time when Squealer, attended by two dogs, approached them with the air of having something important to say.
12 None of the animals could form any idea as to what this meant, except old Benjamin, who nodded his muzzle with a knowing air, and seemed to understand, but would say nothing.
13 If she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race.
14 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.
15 He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark--for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.
16 If a window was broken or a drain was blocked up, someone was certain to say that Snowball had come in the night and done it, and when the key of the store-shed was lost, the whole farm was convinced that Snowball had thrown it down the well.
17 There had been a time--not that he, or any of the present company, had shared such sentiments--but there had been a time when the respected proprietors of Animal Farm had been regarded, he would not say with hostility, but perhaps with a certain measure of misgiving, by their human neighbours.
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