George Orwell Quotes
The Scene Had Interested Me. It Was So Different From The Ordinary Demeanour Of Tramps--from The Abject Worm-like Gratitude With Which They Normally Accept Charity. The Explanation, Of Course, Was That We Outnumbered The Congregation And So Were Not Afraid Of Them. A Man Receiving Charity Practically Always Hates His Benefactor--it Is A Fixed Characteristic Of Human Nature; And, When He Has Fifty Or A Hundred Others To Back Him, He Will Show It.
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