"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it."
"They clichés will construct your sentences for you - even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent - and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself."
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Source: 1939 Coming Up For Air, pt.2, ch.1.
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