← 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. 🔊
← Nothing could have been achieved without Boxer, whose strength seemed equal to that of all the rest of the animals put together. 🔊
← In their spare moments the animals would walk round and round the half−finished mill, admiring the strength and perpendicularity of its walls and marvelling that they should ever have been able to build anything so imposing. 🔊
← Squealer made excellent speeches on the joy of service and the dignity of labour, but the other animals found more inspiration in Boxer's strength and his never−failing cry of "I will work harder! " 🔊
← In nothing that he said or did was there any sign that his strength was not what it had been. 🔊
← But alas! his strength had left him; and in a few moments the sound of drumming hoofs grew fainter and died away. 🔊