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Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn’t do the hangman’s job.
Source:
(Victor Gollancz, ed. 1937), Part II, Chapter IX, Page 177
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Hypocrisy
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Book:
The Road to Wigan Pier
Writer:
George Orwell
Genre:
Autobiography
Published:
1937
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