“Living a lie the whole time — the lie that we're here to uplift our poor black brothers instead of to rob them … it corrupts us, it corrupts us in ways you can't imagine.”

— George Orwell , book Burmese Days

John Flory, Ch. III
Burmese Days (1934)

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