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Quotes from Animal Farm by George Orwell
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1 All that year the animals worked like slaves.
2 Indeed, all the animals worked like slaves that year.
3 But he maintained that it could all be done in a year.
4 The farm had had a fairly successful year, but was still short of money.
5 Boxer's twelfth birthday was due in the late summer of the following year.
6 No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old.
7 Throughout the year the animals worked even harder than they had worked in the previous year.
8 You young porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year.
9 It was also announced that the gun would be fired every year on Napoleon's birthday, as well as on the other two anniversaries.
10 Then a goose came forward and confessed to having secreted six ears of corn during the last year's harvest and eaten them in the night.
11 In Sugarcandy Mountain it was Sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges.
12 They had had a hard year, and after the sale of part of the hay and corn, the stores of food for the winter were none too plentiful, but the windmill compensated for everything.
13 The harvest was a little less successful than in the previous year, and two fields which should have been sown with roots in the early summer were not sown because the ploughing had not been completed early enough.
14 A stump of hay and part of the potato crop were sold off, and the contract for eggs was increased to six hundred a week, so that that year the hens barely hatched enough chicks to keep their numbers at the same level.
15 He was therefore making arrangements to sell a stack of hay and part of the current year's wheat crop, and later on, if more money were needed, it would have to be made up by the sale of eggs, for which there was always a market in Willingdon.
16 Rumours of a wonderful farm, where the human beings had been turned out and the animals managed their own affairs, continued to circulate in vague and distorted forms, and throughout that year a wave of rebelliousness ran through the countryside.
17 They met with many difficulties--for instance, later in the year, when they harvested the corn, they had to tread it out in the ancient style and blow away the chaff with their breath, since the farm possessed no threshing machine--but the pigs with their cleverness and Boxer with his tremendous muscles always pulled them through.
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