1 The seasons came and went, the short animal lives fled by.
2 The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally.
3 And even the miserable lives we lead are not allowed to reach their natural span.
4 You young porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year.
5 The dogs had suddenly caught sight of them, and it was only by a swift dash for their holes that the rats saved their lives.
6 Some day it was coming: it might not be soon, it might not be with in the lifetime of any animal now living, but still it was coming.
7 It might be that their lives were hard and that not all of their hopes had been fulfilled; but they were conscious that they were not as other animals.
8 This single farm of ours would support a dozen horses, twenty cows, hundreds of sheep--and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining.
9 I have had a long life, I have had much time for thought as I lay alone in my stall, and I think I may say that I understand the nature of life on this earth as well as any animal now living.
10 A Mr. Whymper, a solicitor living in Willingdon, had agreed to act as intermediary between Animal Farm and the outside world, and would visit the farm every Monday morning to receive his instructions.
11 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.
12 In his speeches, Squealer would talk with the tears rolling down his cheeks of Napoleon's wisdom the goodness of his heart, and the deep love he bore to all animals everywhere, even and especially the unhappy animals who still lived in ignorance and slavery on other farms.