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George Orwell

"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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"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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"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

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"I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen."

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