“Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.”

—  George Orwell , book Animal Farm

Source: Animal Farm

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English author and journalist 1903–1950

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