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  • Writer: John Service
    John Service
  • Mar 23
  • 1 min read

It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God Save the King than of stealing from a poor-box.

George Orwell (Eric Blair), 1903-1950

 
 
 

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