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Down and Out in Paris and London Quotes

The man who really merits pity is the man who has been down from the start, and faces poverty with a blank, resourceless mind.

Source:(Victor Gollancz, ed. 1933), Chapter XXXIII, Page 244
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George Orwell (Down and Out in Paris and London Quotes)
  • Book: Down and Out in Paris and London
  • Writer: George Orwell
  • Genre: Biography, Travel
  • Published: 1933
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