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The Road to Wigan Pier Quotes

This is the inevitable fate of the sentimentalist. All his opinions change into their opposites at the first brush of reality. - George Orwell (The Road to Wigan Pier Quotes)

This is the inevitable fate of the sentimentalist. All his opinions change into their opposites at the first brush of reality.

Source:(Victor Gollancz, ed. 1937), Part II, Chapter X, Page 190
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George Orwell (The Road to Wigan Pier Quotes)
  • Book: The Road to Wigan Pier
  • Writer: George Orwell
  • Genre: Autobiography
  • Published: 1937
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