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It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

George Orwell
Tragedy, Half, Way
George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

George Orwell
Love And Friendship, Tragedy, Privacy
George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

George Orwell
Men, Tragedy, Triumph
George Orwell (2009). “Critical Essays”

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

George Orwell
Envy, Suffering, Tragedy
George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.227, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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