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1  To a surprising extent the ordinary criminals ignored the Party prisoners.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  The majority of them were common criminals, but there were a few political prisoners among them.
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3  The Party prisoners were always silent and terrified, but the ordinary criminals seemed to care nothing for anybody.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  The guards, too, treated the common criminals with a certain forbearance, even when they had to handle them roughly.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  The positions of trust were given only to the common criminals, especially the gangsters and the murderers, who formed a sort of aristocracy.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  At eleven he had denounced his uncle to the Thought Police after overhearing a conversation which appeared to him to have criminal tendencies.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  There was a vast amount of criminality in London, a whole world-within-a-world of thieves, bandits, prostitutes, drug-peddlers, and racketeers of every description; but since it all happened among the proles themselves, it was of no importance.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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