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Autobiography and memoir

There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.

George Orwell

Homage to Catalonia · 1938

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Resistance Defeat War

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Autobiography and memoir

Time

1938

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George Orwell

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Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia. Secker and Warburg, 1938, ch. 4.

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