On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, 
and not quite all the time. -- George Orwell

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"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat
or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy.
It is our job to see that it stays there."
-- George Orwell
[Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) British author
Source: Orwell: The Authorized Biography, Michael Shelden, (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991), p. 328
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