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What is a church? - Our honest sexton tells, / 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.


George Crabbe

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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