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“He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very persuasive. The others said of Squealer that he could turn black into white.”
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Narrator
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2
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“‘Comrades!’ he cried. ‘You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples”
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Squealer
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3
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“’Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back!’”
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Squealer
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3
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“So it was agreed without further argument that the milk and the windfall apples (and also the main crop of apples when they ripened) should be reserved for the pigs alone.”
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Narrator
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3
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“’No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?’”
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Squealer
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5
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“’One false step, and our enemies would be upon us. Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?’”
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Squealer
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5
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“Had not these been among the earliest resolutions passed at that first triumphant Meeting after Jones was expelled? All the animals remembered passing such resolutions: or at least they thought that they remembered it.”
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Narrator
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6
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“‘Are you certain that this is not something that you have dreamed, comrades? Have you any record of such a resolution? Is it written down anywhere?’”
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Squealer
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6
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“‘And do you not remember, too, that it was just at that moment, when panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that Comrade Napoleon sprang forward with a cry of ‘Death to Humanity!’ and sank his teeth in Jones’ leg? Surely you remember that, comrades?’ exclaimed Squealer, frisking from side to side.”
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Squealer
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7
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“The animals saw no reason to disbelieve him, especially as they could no longer remember very clearly what conditions had been like before the Rebellion.”
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Narrator
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8
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“A too rigid equality in rations, Squealer explained, would have been contrary to the principles of Animalism.”
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Narrator
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9
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“For the time being, certainly, it had been found necessary to make a readjustment of rations (Squealer always spoke of it as a ‘readjustment,’ never as a ‘reduction’)”
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Narrator
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9
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“There was nothing with which they could compare their present lives: they had nothing to go upon except Squealer’s lists of figures, which invariably demonstrated that everything was getting better and better.”
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Narrator
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10
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