“Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.”

—  George Orwell

"As I Please" column in The Tribune (1 September 1944)<sup> http://alexpeak.com/twr/trriw/</sup>
"As I Please" (1943–1947)
Context: Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for. Don't imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking propagandist of the Soviet régime, or any other régime, and then suddenly return to mental decency. Once a whore, always a whore.

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