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George Orwell Quotes about History

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

1941 The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius, pt.1,'England Your England'.

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt