“A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.