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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

— George Orwell, A Collection of Essays  <link>

You wear a mask and your face grows to fit it.

— George Orwell  <link>

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.

— George Orwell  <link>