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Quotes from Animal Farm by George Orwell
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1 It was used for milling corn, and brought in a handsome money profit.
2 "Jones used sometimes to mix some of it in our mash," said one of the hens.
3 The windmill, however, had not after all been used for generating electrical power.
4 Huge boulders, far too big to be used as they were, were lying all over the bed of the quarry.
5 It was noticed that they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones.
6 He assured them that the resolution against engaging in trade and using money had never been passed, or even suggested.
7 Snowball used as his study a shed which had once been used for incubators and had a smooth wooden floor, suitable for drawing on.
8 Finally he decided to be content with the first four letters, and used to write them out once or twice every day to refresh his memory.
9 It was only his appearance that was a little altered; his hide was less shiny than it had used to be, and his great haunches seemed to have shrunken.
10 Many years ago, when I was a little pig, my mother and the other sows used to sing an old song of which they knew only the tune and the first three words.
11 A little awkwardly, as though not quite used to supporting his considerable bulk in that position, but with perfect balance, he was strolling across the yard.
12 Muriel, the goat, could read somewhat better than the dogs, and sometimes used to read to the others in the evenings from scraps of newspaper which she found on the rubbish heap.
13 Nevertheless, some of the animals were disturbed when they heard that the pigs not only took their meals in the kitchen and used the drawing-room as a recreation room, but also slept in the beds.
14 They had never seen animals behave like this before, and this sudden uprising of creatures whom they were used to thrashing and maltreating just as they chose, frightened them almost out of their wits.
15 The harness-room at the end of the stables was broken open; the bits, the nose-rings, the dog-chains, the cruel knives with which Mr. Jones had been used to castrate the pigs and lambs, were all flung down the well.
16 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.
17 It did not seem strange when Napoleon was seen strolling in the farmhouse garden with a pipe in his mouth--no, not even when the pigs took Mr. Jones's clothes out of the wardrobes and put them on, Napoleon himself appearing in a black coat, ratcatcher breeches, and leather leggings, while his favourite sow appeared in the watered silk dress which Mrs. Jones had been used to wearing on Sundays.
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