Orwell #9
"Today there are only eighty people in the United Kingdom with net incomes of over six thousand pounds a year." (Mr. Quintin Hogg, M.P., in his pamphlet The Times We Live In.)
There are also about eighty ways in the English and American languages of expressing incredulity -- for example, garn, come off it, you bet, sez you, oh yeah, not half, I don't think, less of it or and the pudding! But I think and then you wake up is the exactly suitable answer to a remark like the one quoted above.
"As I Please," 55, Tribune, 19 January 1945 (In The Complete Works of George Orwell, ed. Peter Davison, vol. 17, p. 23).
There are also about eighty ways in the English and American languages of expressing incredulity -- for example, garn, come off it, you bet, sez you, oh yeah, not half, I don't think, less of it or and the pudding! But I think and then you wake up is the exactly suitable answer to a remark like the one quoted above.
"As I Please," 55, Tribune, 19 January 1945 (In The Complete Works of George Orwell, ed. Peter Davison, vol. 17, p. 23).
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