A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of …

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A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses. ✨ George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell, Penguin Modern Classics
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