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Quotes from Animal Farm by George Orwell
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1 He called the animals together and told them that he had a terrible piece of news to impart.
2 Their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor.
3 But the problem the animals could not at first solve was how to break up the stone into pieces of suitable size.
4 At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces.
5 She would form these very neatly out of pieces of twig, and would then decorate them with a flower or two and walk round them admiring them.
6 Frederick had wanted to pay for the timber with something called a cheque, which, it seemed, was a piece of paper with a promise to pay written upon it.
7 She had taken a piece of blue ribbon from Mrs. Jones's dressing-table, and was holding it against her shoulder and admiring herself in the glass in a very foolish manner.
8 One day in early summer Squealer ordered the sheep to follow him, and led them out to a piece of waste ground at the other end of the farm, which had become overgrown with birch saplings.
9 With his books held open by a stone, and with a piece of chalk gripped between the knuckles of his trotter, he would move rapidly to and fro, drawing in line after line and uttering little whimpers of excitement.
10 Instead--she did not know why--they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.
11 It was decided to set the gun up at the foot of the Flagstaff, like a piece of artillery, and to fire it twice a year--once on October the twelfth, the anniversary of the Battle of the Cowshed, and once on Midsummer Day, the anniversary of the Rebellion.
12 The animals lashed ropes round these, and then all together, cows, horses, sheep, any animal that could lay hold of the rope--even the pigs sometimes joined in at critical moments--they dragged them with desperate slowness up the slope to the top of the quarry, where they were toppled over the edge, to shatter to pieces below.