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George Orwell

Burmese Days

  • Aselle Yevdokimova-Sugurbayevaцитирует3 года назад
    My friend, you do not think that. If truly you disapproved of the British Empire, you would not be talking of it privately here. You would be proclaiming it from the housetops.
  • Aselle Yevdokimova-Sugurbayevaцитирует3 года назад
    too terrible to have to walk about in this sun every day.’
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновцитирует4 года назад
    Ma Kin bent her head over her sewing. She was a simple, old-fashioned woman, who had learned even less of European habits than U Po Kyin. She could not sit on a chair without discomfort.
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновцитирует5 лет назад
    He who had once been obscure and hungry was now fat, rich and feared. He was swollen with the bodies of his enemies; a thought from which he extracted something very near poetry.
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновцитирует5 лет назад
    His practice, a much safer one, was to take bribes from both sides and then decide the case on strictly legal grounds. This won him a useful reputation for impartiality.
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновцитирует5 лет назад
    In his childish way he had grasped that his own people were no match for this race of giants. To fight on the side of the British, to become a parasite upon them, had been his ruling ambition, even as a child.
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