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"A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away."

"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

"Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel."

"We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers."
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"A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes."

"It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain."

"For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money."

"A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase."

"In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money."

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

"Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."

"What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself. Proles, it suddenly occurred to him, had remained in this condition. They were not loyal to a party or a country or an idea, they were loyal to one another."
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