What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice…

George Orwell
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What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing. ✨ George Orwell (1970). A Collection of Essays, p.272, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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