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It is a stifling, stultifying world in which to live

All those bastards and scheming political louts, and that poor little dog,

Burmese Days  
George Orwell

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”

“To die hating them, that was freedom.”
― George Orwell, 1984

The word "pukka" is still used formally in twenty-first century English to describe something as "first class" or "absolutely genuine."

Be Pukka Sahib


Your opinion on every subject of any conceivable importance is dictated for you by the 'pukka sahibs’ code.

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