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2 Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
3 Boxer was forgotten, except by the few who had known him.
4 Once again all rations were reduced, except those of the pigs and the dogs.
5 They were all carrying sticks, except Jones, who was marching ahead with a gun in his hands.
6 When it was all over, the remaining animals, except for the pigs and dogs, crept away in a body.
7 All the animals were now present except Moses, the tame raven, who slept on a perch behind the back door.
8 The dogs learned to read fairly well, but were not interested in reading anything except the Seven Commandments.
9 The pigeons swirled into the air, and all the animals, except Napoleon, flung themselves flat on their bellies and hid their faces.
10 There seemed no way of doing this except with picks and crowbars, which no animal could use, because no animal could stand on his hind legs.
11 A time came when there was no one who remembered the old days before the Rebellion, except Clover, Benjamin, Moses the raven, and a number of the pigs.
12 Only old Benjamin was much the same as ever, except for being a little greyer about the muzzle, and, since Boxer's death, more morose and taciturn than ever.
13 None of the animals could form any idea as to what this meant, except old Benjamin, who nodded his muzzle with a knowing air, and seemed to understand, but would say nothing.
14 Sometimes on the slope leading to the top of the quarry, when he braced his muscles against the weight of some vast boulder, it seemed that nothing kept him on his feet except the will to continue.
15 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.
16 If one of them suggested sowing a bigger acreage with barley, the other was certain to demand a bigger acreage of oats, and if one of them said that such and such a field was just right for cabbages, the other would declare that it was useless for anything except roots.
17 They had made their way on to the little knoll where the half-finished windmill stood, and with one accord they all lay down as though huddling together for warmth--Clover, Muriel, Benjamin, the cows, the sheep, and a whole flock of geese and hens--everyone, indeed, except the cat, who had suddenly disappeared just before Napoleon ordered the animals to assemble.
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