But for the moment I am advocatus diaboli. The world is a raft sailing through space with, potentially, plenty of provisions for everybody… And please notice that I am arguing for Socialism, not against it. All his opinions change into their opposites at the first brush of reality. This is the inevitable fate of the sentimentalist. Our age has not been altogether a bad one to live in. It it curious how seldom the all-importance of food is recognized.
There is at least a tinge of truth in that picture of Southern England as one enormous Brighton inhabited by lounge-lizards. Quotes A thousand influences constantly press a working man down into a passive role. The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) by George Orwell is a sociological look at living conditions in the industrial north of England before World War II.
I have noticed that people who let lodgings nearly always hate their lodgers.
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