← I do not think, comrades, that I shall be with you for many months longer, and before I die, I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom as I have acquired. 🔊
← Fix your eyes on that, comrades, throughout the short remainder of your lives! And above all, pass on this message of mine to those who come after you, so that future generations shall carry on the struggle until it is victorious. 🔊
← Soon or late the day is coming, Tyrant Man shall be o'erthrown, And the fruitful fields of England Shall be trod by beasts alone. 🔊
← Riches more than mind can picture, Wheat and barley, oats and hay, Clover, beans, and mangel−wurzels Shall be ours upon that day. 🔊
← Bright will shine the fields of England, Purer shall its waters be, Sweeter yet shall blow its breezes On the day that sets us free. 🔊
← You will have all the oats and hay you want." "And shall I still be allowed to wear ribbons in my mane?" 🔊
← 2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. 3. No animal shall wear clothes. 🔊
← 4. No animal shall sleep in a bed. 5. No animal shall drink alcohol. 6. 🔊
← No animal shall kill any other animal. 7. All animals are equal. It was very neatly written, and except that "friend" was written "freind" and one of the "S's" was the wrong way round, the spelling was correct all the way through. 🔊
← The harvest is more important. Comrade Snowball will lead the way. I shall follow in a few minutes. 🔊
← "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. 🔊
← "It says, 'No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets,"' she announced finally. 🔊
← We will teach this miserable traitor that he cannot undo our work so easily. Remember, comrades, there must be no alteration in our plans: they shall be carried out to the day. 🔊
← From now onwards I shall get up a full hour earlier in the mornings." And he moved off at his lumbering trot and made for the quarry. 🔊
← So Beasts of England was heard no more. In its place Minimus, the poet, had composed another song which began: Animal Farm, Animal Farm, Never through me shalt thou come to harm! 🔊
← A FEW days later, when the terror caused by the executions had died down, some of the animals remembered−or thought they remembered−that the Sixth Commandment decreed "No animal shall kill any other animal." 🔊
← Muriel read the Commandment for her. It ran: "No animal shall kill any other animal without cause." 🔊
← They had thought the Fifth Commandment was "No animal shall drink alcohol," but there were two words that they had forgotten. 🔊
← Actually the Commandment read: "No animal shall drink alcohol to excess." 🔊
← "Up there, comrades," he would say solemnly, pointing to the sky with his large beak−"up there, just on the other side of that dark cloud that you can see−there it lies, Sugarcandy Mountain, that happy country where we poor animals shall rest for ever from our labours!" 🔊