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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

George Orwell

The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Clear Enemy Language Sincere
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Deny Existence Truth
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Follow Freedom Grant Politics
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Judgement People Thinking Writing
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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Appealing Couple Enjoyment Except Insane Mind Resemble
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Age Deserve Face Inspirational One Liner
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Hear Liberty People Want
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Goodness Human Quite Time
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Aim Degrade Human Joke Remind
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Transparent Window Writing
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Concept Fade History Lie Objective Truth World
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Conservation One Liner Patriotism
Sanity is not statistical.
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One Liner Sanity Statistics

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