All GEORGE ORWELL Quotes about “Failing”

“Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.”
“I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English â€˜educationâ€™ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school â€” I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet â€” but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.”
“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.”

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