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Alone among the animals on the farm he never laughed. If asked why, he would say that he saw nothing to laugh at. 🔊

It is all lies. Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. And among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle. 🔊

Pre−eminent among the pigs were two young boars named Snowball and Napoleon, whom Mr. Jones was breeding up for sale. 🔊

All the other male pigs on the farm were porkers. The best known among them was a small fat pig named Squealer, with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, and a shrill voice. 🔊

Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades," cried Squealer almost pleadingly, skipping from side to side and whisking his tail, "surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?" 🔊

The whole thing would be over in a fortnight, they said. They put it about that the animals on the Manor Farm (they insisted on calling it the Manor Farm; they would not tolerate the name "Animal Farm") were perpetually fighting among themselves and were also rapidly starving to death. 🔊

In the end, however, she was found hiding in her stall with her head buried among the hay in the manger. 🔊

According to Snowball, they must send out more and more pigeons and stir up rebellion among the animals on the other farms. 🔊

On the contrary, it was he who had advocated it in the beginning, and the plan which Snowball had drawn on the floor of the incubator shed had actually been stolen from among Napoleon's papers. 🔊

Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness. Never to have any dealings with human beings, never to engage in trade, never to make use of moneyhad not these been among the earliest resolutions passed at that first triumphant Meeting after Jones was expelled? 🔊

Once again it was being put about that all the animals were dying of famine and disease, and that they were continually fighting among themselves and had resorted to cannibalism and infanticide. 🔊

For we have reason to think that some of Snowball's secret agents are lurking among us at this moment! " 🔊

In the old days there had often been scenes of bloodshed equally terrible, but it seemed to all of them that it was far worse now that it was happening among themselves. 🔊

Sometimes the older ones among them racked their dim memories and tried to determine whether in the early days of the Rebellion, when Jones's expulsion was still recent, things had been better or worse than now. 🔊

No creature among them went upon two legs. No creature called any other creature "Master." 🔊

They had been credited with attempting to stir up rebellion among the animals on neighbouring farms. 🔊

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