With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.


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Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
GEORGE ORWELL
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume...
GEORGE ORWELL
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...
GEORGE ORWELL
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
GEORGE ORWELL
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire t...
GEORGE ORWELL
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
GEORGE ORWELL
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
GEORGE ORWELL
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality...
GEORGE ORWELL
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
GEORGE ORWELL
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELL
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually l...
GEORGE ORWELL
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a cr...
GEORGE ORWELL
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
GEORGE ORWELL
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exha...
GEORGE ORWELL
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
GEORGE ORWELL
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELL
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
GEORGE ORWELL
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELL
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
GEORGE ORWELL
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequentl...
GEORGE ORWELL
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELL
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
GEORGE ORWELL
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corpora...
GEORGE ORWELL
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
GEORGE ORWELL
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one...
GEORGE ORWELL
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses t...
GEORGE ORWELL
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay egg...
GEORGE ORWELL
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defen...
GEORGE ORWELL
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments ...
GEORGE ORWELL
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of...
GEORGE ORWELL
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of al...
GEORGE ORWELL
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
GEORGE ORWELL
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
GEORGE ORWELL
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one si...
GEORGE ORWELL
Big Brother is watching you.
GEORGE ORWELL
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELL
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
GEORGE ORWELL
I intend to live life, not just exist.
GEORGE TAKEI
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL
Good writing is like a windowpane.
GEORGE ORWELL
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
GEORGE ORWELL
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing ...
GEORGE ORWELL
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in ...
GEORGE ORWELL
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than othe...
GEORGE ORWELL