← I have had a long life, I have had much time for thought as I lay alone in my stall, and I think I may say that I understand the nature of life on this earth as well as any animal now living. 🔊
← Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty. 🔊
← Napoleon was a large, rather fierce−looking Berkshire boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way. 🔊
← At the beginning they met with much stupidity and apathy. Some of the animals talked of the duty of loyalty to Mr. Jones, whom they referred to as "Master," or made elementary remarks such as "Mr. Jones feeds us. 🔊
← Now, as it turned out, the Rebellion was achieved much earlier and more easily than anyone had expected. 🔊
← He had become much disheartened after losing money in a lawsuit, and had taken to drinking more than was good for him. 🔊
← And not an animal on the farm had stolen so much as a mouthful. All through that summer the work of the farm went like clockwork. 🔊
← The other farmers sympathised in principle, but they did not at first give him much help. 🔊
← These two disliked each other so much that it was difficult for them to come to any agreement, even in defence of their own interests. 🔊
← Nevertheless, they were both thoroughly frightened by the rebellion on Animal Farm, and very anxious to prevent their own animals from learning too much about it. 🔊
← There was much discussion as to what the battle should be called. In the end, it was named the Battle of the Cowshed, since that was where the ambush had been sprung. 🔊
← And thereafter, he declared, so much labour would be saved that the animals would only need to work three days a week. 🔊
← "Loyalty and obedience are more important. And as to the Battle of the Cowshed, I believe the time will come when we shall find that Snowball's part in it was much exaggerated. 🔊
← The animals watched his coming and going with a kind of dread, and avoided him as much as possible. 🔊
← The animals knew that this was not the case. Still, it had been decided to build the walls three feet thick this time instead of eighteen inches as before, which meant collecting much larger quantities of stone. 🔊
← Napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly. He ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. 🔊
← Only old Benjamin was much the same as ever, except for being a little greyer about the muzzle, and, since Boxer's death, more morose and taciturn than ever. 🔊
← None of them proved able to learn the alphabet beyond the letter B. They accepted everything that they were told about the Rebellion and the principles of Animalism, especially from Clover, for whom they had an almost filial respect; but it was doubtful whether they understood very much of it. 🔊
← Much of this work was of a kind that the other animals were too ignorant to understand. 🔊
← Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse−hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life. 🔊