Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life …

George Orwell
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Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life. ✨ George Orwell (2016). Animal Farm, p.47, Hamilton Books
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Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life. ✨ George Orwell (2016). Animal Farm, p.47, Hamilton Books

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