Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not …

George Orwell
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. ✨ George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). Animal Farm and 1984, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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