If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have …

George Orwell
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If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists. ✨ George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940, Harvill Secker
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