TO in Classic Quotes

1  But I will come to the dream later.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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2  I have something else to say first.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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3  It is about this that I wish to speak to you.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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4  There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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5  If asked why, he would say that he saw nothing to laugh at.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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6  Before long the other animals began to arrive and make themselves comfortable after their different fashions.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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7  Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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8  She took a place near the front and began flirting her white mane, hoping to draw attention to the red ribbons it was plaited with.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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9  The hens perched themselves on the window-sills, the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters, the sheep and cows lay down behind the pigs and began to chew the cud.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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10  I do not think, comrades, that I shall be with you for many months longer, and before I die, I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom as I have acquired.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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11  Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle White boar, had had a strange dream on the previous night and wished to communicate it to the other animals.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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12  Nevertheless, without openly admitting it, he was devoted to Boxer; the two of them usually spent their Sundays together in the small paddock beyond the orchard, grazing side by side and never speaking.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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13  The two horses had just lain down when a brood of ducklings, which had lost their mother, filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side to find some place where they would not be trodden on.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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14  He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark--for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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15  Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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16  With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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17  We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
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