Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up. ✨ Geor…

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Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up. ✨ George Orwell (1968). The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945
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